
Qass__E._2jl_ __ 



04 




Exercises at Dedication 

of 
THE NEW CITY HALL 

AND 

MEMORIAL ORGAN 




Portland, Maine, August 22, 1912 



FULL TEXT OF THE ADDRESSES DELIVERED ON THAT OCCASION, AND 

A BRIEF REVIEW OF MUNICIPAL ACTION FOLLOWING 

THE BURNING OF THE OLD CITY HALL 

JANUARY 24, I908 



Published by Authority of 
the City Hall Building Commission 



/ /^} \ 



.r<jr$z 



Soutbwortb printing Company 
Portland ffl>aine 



/3 SZ> 



/<r 



/ 



(HanttntB. 



PAGE 

Date of City Hall Fire, .... 5 

Advisory Committee's Report, ... 7 

Action of Citizens' Meeting, ... 8 

Building Commission Created, ... 11 

Popular Vote on City Hall Site, . . 13 

Architects Chosen and Plans Adopted, . 15 

Personnel of City Council, ... 18 

Building Contract Authorized, . . 19' 

Corner-stone Laid, .... 20 

Gift of Organ by Cyrus H. K. Curtis, . . 21 

Music Commission Ordinance, ... 23 

Dedication Program, . . . . 25 

Address of Mr. Owen Brainard, for Architects, 26 

Address of Hon. Adam P. Leighton, for City 

Hall Building Commission, . . 28 

Remarks of Donor of the Organ, . . 32 

Address of Mayor Curtis, for City of Portland, 33 

Oration by Hon. Joseph W. Symonds, . . 42 

Evening Recital, Aug. 22, 1912, . . 67 

Address of Hon. Clarence Hale, . . 68 

Week-end Recitals, .... 70 

Editorial Comment, .... 73 

Description of Organ, .... 77 



SUuHtraiums. 



City Hall, 

State Reception Hall, 

kotzschmar memorial organ, 

City Hall Auditorium, 

Bust of Hermann Kotzschmar, 

Mayor's Office, 

The Historical Tablets, 

Aldermen's Chamber, 

Common Council Chamber, 

The Main Entrance, 

Corridor of Auditorium, 



frontispiece 
opposite page 15 
21 
25 
32 
37 
42 
52 
62 
67 
67 




OF 

OMPLYING with a general request for a preser- 
vation of the addresses delivered at the dedication 
of Portland City Hall, the commissioners who had 
charge of construction of the building have au- 
thorized the publication of this pamphlet. 

Observant of the wish of the commissioners, 
the compiler has refrained from indulgence in any descriptive 
or eulogistic comment, but has simply given the briefest out- 
line, in chronological order, of events and official acts leading 
up to the erection and opening of the new building. 

The real story of Portland's interest and pride in its 
new municipal building and auditorium, and its world-famed 
memorial organ, can be found in the text of the dedicatory 
addresses, and in the photographs herewith, most of them 
reproduced from The American Architect, through the kind- 
ness of the editors of that enterprising publication. 

The old City Hall was burned January 24, 1908. The 
cornerstone of the new was laid October 6, 1909, and the 
building was dedicated August 22, 1912. It is constructed 
of Maine granite. The three floors and basement of the main 
building are given up to municipal offices and chambers. The 
auditorium, in the rear, has a seating capacity of 3,051, divided 
as follows: Ground floor, 1,544; first balcony, 852; second 
balcony, 655. The municipal organ, the second largest in the 
United States and the fourth largest in the world, was a gift 
to the city from Mr. Cyrus H. K. Curtis of Philadelphia, a 
native of Portland, as a memorial to Prof. Hermann Kotzsch- 
mar, a music instructor and composer, who died in this city, 
April 15th, 1908. 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

The old building had been jointly occupied by the courts 
and executive departments of the City of Portland and the 
County of Cumberland. The county had owned the land until 
within a few years, when the erection of a new county building 
on Federal street was begun. 

The only apartments that escaped the ravages of the 
flames were those occupied by the county clerk of courts and 
the register of deeds. All the city government offices were 
burned out, but most of the records and books of municipal and 
historical value were saved. The city offices were widely scat- 
tered, continuing so until the completion of the new building. 
The city maintained temporary quarters for the county offi- 
cers until the county building was ready for occupancy in 
February, 1910. 



ITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



$ reltmtttanj $ robbms. 

Immediately following the fire, the question of whether it 
would be expedient or safe to utilize the old walls in rebuilding 
came up for official consideration and was for some time a 
live topic of local discussion. 

March 2nd, a committee of local architects and builders, 
chosen to examine the ruins, made a detailed report, favoring 
the removal of the greater part of the standing walls. This 
committee was composed of: Architects, F. H. Fassett, John 
Calvin Stevens, F. A. Tompson; builders, F. W. Cunningham, 
J. E. Harmon, George E. Hawkes. 

A strict adherence to the architecture of the old building 
— built in 1862, burned in the great fire of 1866 and restored 
the following year — was advocated by many citizens, but the 
predominating sentiment was in favor of a modern structure, 
on entirely new lines and an enlarged site. 

April 8th an advisory committee, consisting of Mayor 
Adam P. Leighton, Alderman Frank D. Marshall, Councilman 
Harry L. Cram, Councilman John J. Maloney, Architect John 
Calvin Stevens and Robert S. Peabody of Boston, submitted 
a unanimous report, favoring a City Hall site in the easterly 
end of Lincoln Park, with a view to a systematic grouping 
of the municipal, county and federal buildings, the park area 
to be enlarged by a removal of the old buildings in the block 
bounded by Congress, Market, Federal and Pearl streets. 

That report advocated erecting an auditorium apart from 
the municipal office structure, and a sale of the old City Hall 
site. 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



"Emn0Lnt\n$" Artum. 

Meanwhile, a general meeting of citizens for a consider- 
ation of the City Hall question, had been called, under a char- 
ter provision, and that largely attended gathering, termed a 
"town meeting," went on record against a change of City 
Hall site. 

Following is the clerk's official record of proceedings at 
that meeting: 

Pursuant to the warrant from the Board of Mayor and 
Aldermen, recorded on page 332 of this volume, duly issued 
and attested copies posted, a general meeting of citizens qual- 
ified to vote in city affairs was held, in the auditorium on 
Market, Milk and Fore streets, as directed by said warrant, on 
Wednesday, April 8, 1908, at 7.30 p. m., and the following 
business was transacted: 

The meeting was called to order at the appointed time 
bv the city clerk, who read section 18 of the city charter ; the 
petition signed by 60 qualified voters, which was presented to 
the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, March 18, 1908, and said 
warrant and the return thereon of Sumner W. Johnson, one of 
the constables of the City of Portland. 

Nominations for moderator being called for, Enoch Fos- 
ter was nominated. On motion of Edgar E. Rounds, seconded 
by William H. Sargent, the meeting voted that a committee 
of three be appointed to receive, sort and count votes. The 
clerk appointed Philip J. Deering, E. C. Jordan and William 
L. Watson. 

Enoch Foster was unanimously elected moderator and 
was duly sworn by the city clerk. 

The second article of the warrant was read by the mod- 
erator. 

8 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

The following resolution was presented by Horace H. 
Shaw, who moved its adoption, the motion being seconded by 
Liberty B. Dennett: 

"Resolved, that we, the citizens of Portland, in town 
meeting assembled, hereby advise the Mayor and City Council 
of the City of Portland to make use of the present site for the 
city building." 

After discussion the resolution was adopted by a rising 
vote. 

George M. Seiders presented the following resolution, and 
moved its adoption, which motion was duly seconded : 

"Resolved, that we, the citizens of Portland, in town meet- 
ing assembled, hereby instruct the City Council of the City of 
Portland that they restore the present building, using the re- 
maining walls so far as they are sound and suitable." 

A motion made by Liberty B. Dennett, and seconded by 
Frederick W. Hinckley, to lay the resolution on the table, 
pending discussion of a subsequent question, was put and 
declared lost. 

The motion of Mr. Seiders to adopt the pending resolu- 
tion, was carried by a rising vote, and the resolution declared 
adopted. 

Edgar E. Rounds presented, and addressed the meeting 
in favor of, the following resolution: 

Resolved further, that we, the citizens of Portland, in 
town meeting assembled, hereby appoint a committee of seven 
citizens of Portland, whose duty it shall be to advise the City 
Council in regard to the parts of the present city building that 
are suitable to be used in the erection of a new city building." 

Edward W. Murphy suggested that the resolution be 
amended so as to read "a committee of nine citizens, one from 
each ward," instead of a committee of seven. Mr. Rounds 
declined to accept the suggested amendment in full. 

After discussion, the meeting being addressed by James 
Cunningham, Mayor Adam P. Leighton, Alderman Clifford 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

The members of said commission shall be nominated 
by the Mayor and elected by the City Council ; and vacancies 
arising therein shall be filled in like manner. Every member 
thereof shall serve without pay. 

In Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 
May 4, 1908. 
Read twice, passed and sent down for concurrence. 
Yeas, 6 ; nays, 3. 

Attest, 

A. L. T. Cummings, 

City Clerk. 

In Common Council, 
May 4, 1908. 
Read twice and passed, in concurrence. Yeas, 18 ; nays, 4. 
Attest, 

W. P. Stoneham, 

Clerk. 
Approved by the Mayor, May 5, 1908. 



A week later Mayor Leighton announced to the City 
Council his selection of associate commissioners — Richard C. 
Payson and Hon. John F. A. Merrill, the nomination being 
unanimously approved by ballot. 



12 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



^ubmttt^ to Popular Hoi?. 

May 11th, the City Council voted to submit to the people, 
questions pertaining to the building of a City Hall. 

The vote was taken, May 25th, in connection with the 
annual election of a Water District trustee. The form of bal- 
lot submitted contained seven questions, which are here given, 
together with the official record of the votes upon each : 

Question No. i — Shall the new city building be located 
on Congress street, between Chestnut and Myrtle 
streets ? 

Answer — Yes, 4,448 ; no, 957. 

Question No. 2 — Shall a hall for the accommodation of 
public meetings and assemblages be constructed in 
connection with, and as a part of, such city build- 



ing 



Answer — Yes, 4,562 ; no, 811. 

Question No. 3 — Shall the lot of land at the corner of 
Chestnut and Congress streets, adjoining the site of 
the late city building on Congress street, be acquired 
by the city? 

Answer — Yes, 4,311 ; no, 979. 

Question A T o. 4 — Shall the city building be located in 
Lincoln Park, as recommended by the advisory 
committee, said park to be enlarged by the addition 
of the central fire station block? 

Answer — Yes, 1,200; no, 3,655. 

Question No. 5 — Shall the auditorium be built as a 
part of the new city building in Lincoln Park? 

Answer — Yes, 823; no, 3,657. 

13 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

Question No. 6 — Shall the auditorium be a separate build- 
ing, on the old city building lot, corner of Myrtle 
and Congress streets ? 

Answer — Yes, 576; no, 4,004. 

Question No. 7 — Shall the new city building be con- 
structed on what is known as the Edwards & Walker 
lot, fronting on Monument Square, providing said 
lot can be obtained by the city, at a reasonable price, 
for that purpose? 

Answer — Yes, 409; no, 4,024. 



14 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



Arrljtiwtfi an& JUans. 



The next move toward a municipal building was made 
June 15, when the commissioners announced their selection 
of architects — Carrere & Hastings of New York, John Calvin 
Stevens and John Howard Stevens of Portland. With a 
single dissenting vote, in the upper board, the City Council 
approved this choice. 

At the same meeting was introduced an order authorizing 
an expenditure for preliminary plans for a municipal building 
and auditorium. 

September 23rd, plans were submitted by the architects, 
and unanimously recommended by the commissioners, but an 
order to adopt the plans was tabled. These plans called for 
a building to cost $853,290, the auditorium to have a seating 
capacity of 2,000. 

The demand of the City Council being for a larger audi- 
torium, the plans were revised, the seating capacity to be not 
less than 2,500, and the estimated cost, $909,505. 

At the next meeting, October 5, the revised order was 
presented and was given a unanimous passage, together with 
an order authorizing the commissioners to procure full work- 
ing plans and specifications, and the committee on public 
property to secure the needed additional land. The official 
record of the passage of these two orders is as follows : 

Ordered, that the report of the City Hall building com- 
mission, dated Sept. 23, 1908, with plans and recommendations 
for a new City Hall submitted be, and the same is accepted, ap- 
proved and adopted, and that said commission be, and hereby 

IS 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

is, authorized and directed to forthwith have made full work- 
ing plans and specifications for the erection of said City Hall 
building in accordance with its said recommendations, and to 
ask for and receive bids for the erection, preparation, fur- 
nishing and equipment of said building in accordance with 
said plans ; and upon procuring suitable bids the same shall be 
submitted to the City Council. 

It is hereby declared to be the sense of the City Council 
that in the work of erecting a new City Hall, contractors and 
mechanics who are citizens of Portland be given preference, 
so far as possible. 

In Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 
Oct. 5, 1908. 
Read twice, passed and sent down for concurrence. Yeas, 
9 ; nays, 0. Attest, 

A. L. T. Cummings, 

City Clerk. 

In Common Council, 
Oct. 5, 1908. 
Read twice and passed, in concurrence. Yeas, 25 ; nays, 0. 
Attest, 

W. P. Stoneham, 

Clerk. 
Approved, October 6, 1908. 

Adam P. Leighton, 

Mayor. 



Ordered, that the City Hall building commission be, and 
hereby is, authorized and directed to forthwith have made full 
working plans and specifications for an auditorium, to be 
erected in connection with the new City Hall building, such 
auditorium to have a seating capacity of not less than 2,500. 

The committee on public property be, and hereby is, au- 
thorized and directed to secure such additional land in the 

16 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

rear of City Hall site as may be found necessary for placing 
the new auditorium. 

In Board of Mayor and Aldermen, 
Oct. 5, 1908. 
Read twice, passed and sent down for concurrence. Yeas, 
9; nays, 0. 

Attest, 

A. L. T. Cummings, 

City Clerk. 



In Common Council, 
Oct. 5, 1908. 
Read twice and passed, in concurrence. Yeas, 22 ; nays, 0. 
Attest, 

W. P. Stoneham, 

Clerk. 
Approved, October 8, 1908. 

Adam P. Leighton, 

Mayor. 



17 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



Members of Olttg (Emtttrtl. 



lows 



The personnel of the City Council at that time was as fol- 

Mayor. 
Adam P. Leighton. 



Aldermen. 



Ward i — George B. Boutwell. 

2 — Richard J. Duddy. 

3 — Thomas F. Bishop. 

4 — Daniel L. Bowen. 

5 — John C. Small. 



Ward 6 
7 



Frank D. Marshall. 

Charles F. Flagg. 
8 — Albert E. Neal. 
9 — Clifford E. McGlauflin. 



A. L. T. Cum mings, City Clerk. 



Common Council. 
Harry L. Cram, President. 



Ward i — Benjamin L. Donnell, 
Embert G. Robinson, 
William L. Taylor. 

Ward 2 — Martin Meehan, 

James A. Cunningham. 
John J. Maloney. 

Ward 3 — Harry M. Taylor, 
Joel C. Leighton, 
John N. Long. 

Ward 4 — Bartley A. Flaherty, 
Timothy B. Sheehan, 
Thomas McBrady. 

War d 5 — Walter G. Hay, 
J. Frank Hovey, 
Henry Cleaves Sullivan. 



Ward 6 — Clarence H. Lane, 
Burt L. Johnson, 
Charles W. LeGrow. 

Ward 7 — Harold L. Berry, 

Edward D. Bancroft, 
Theodore S. Johnson. 

Ward 8 — Viander S. Hillis, 

Edward C. OBrion, 
Joseph C. Sawyer. 

Ward — Harry L. Cram, 

Frederick H. Knight, 
Moses P. Adams. 



Willis P. Stoneham, 



Clerk. 



18 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



{Jrarwfrd to Smlfc. 

March 1st, 1909, the City Council passed an order au- 
thorizing a clearance of the site. 

April 5th a purchase of land in the rear of the old build- 
ing was authorized, a single vote being cast in the negative. 

July 7th, the Board of Mayor and Aldermen passed, 
7 to 1, an order authorizing the commissioners to sign a build- 
ing contract with Norcross Brothers of Worcester, Mass. In 
the Common Council it failed of a passage by a required 
two-thirds vote, the ballot being 14 to 9 in its favor. 

The matter came up again July 14th, and with it a re- 
monstrance signed by Mr. Edward A. Noyes and others, 
against building according to the adopted plans. The remon- 
strance was ordered on file and the order to make a contract 
with Norcross Brothers was passed, the vote in the upper 
board being 6 to 1, and in the lower board 20 to 6, in its favor. 
The contract with Norcross Brothers was made by the 
commissioners July 24th, and four days later the work of 
removing the ruins and excavating for the new building was 
begun. 



19 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



Aug. 16, 1909, the following committee was chosen by 
the City Council to arrange for exercises connected with the 
laying of the corner-stone : Mayor Adam P. Leighton, Alder- 
men John C. Small, Joseph C. Sawyer and Daniel L. Bowen, 
Councilmen William L. Taylor, Edward C. OBrion, John F. 
White, Winfield S. Cox, Bartley A. Flaherty. 

The corner-stone was laid with impressive exercises, un- 
der Masonic direction, Oct. 6, 1909. Grand Master E. B. Mal- 
lett of Freeport officiated, assisted by other Grand Lodge offi- 
cers and the two local commanderies of Knights Templar. 

Mayor Leighton gave a brief address and an oration was 
delivered by Ex-Mayor James P. Baxter. 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 



(Sift of JHisttiripal (§x$m. 

The first public announcement of the intention of Mr. 
Cyrus H. K. Curtis to present the city with an organ for the 
new City Hall was made, Jan. 10, 1911, by Commissioner and 
Ex-Mayor Adam P. Leighton, a life-long friend, by whom the 
suggestion of such a gift had been made, and through whom 
arrangements were consummated. The letter from Mr. Curtis 
to Mr. Leighton, published that day was, in part, as follows: 

"I have just written Carrere & Hastings and also the Aus- 
tin Organ Co., that I have placed the order for an organ, the 
cost not to exceed $30,000, with them — the Austin Organ Co. — 
upon the understanding that the architects have, or will pro- 
vide, sufficient room for an organ that is adequate for the 
auditorium. The reason for placing this order with the Austin 
Organ Co. is this : Mr. John Spencer Camp (of that company) 
is the leading musical light of Hartford, Conn., has for 
years conducted a large choral society, is thoroughly accus- 
tomed to choral work and knows, more than any one else 
of my acquaintance, what is needed in such an instrument that 
would be best suited to a large auditorium. I have given them 
carte blanche to build such an organ, unhampered by any or- 
ganist or music committee, and without any prejudice or pre- 
conceived notions of my own, knowing that they are better 
qualified to build the right kind of an instrument than I could 
be or any committee whose members might differ in their 
views as to what was best. In this way, I believe we will get 
the best results. I know Mr. Camp very well and what he 
undertakes to do for us will be done with honor absolutely. 

As this organ is to be a memorial to Hermann Kotzschmar, 
I have asked them to provide some sort of place in the organ 
front for a bust of Mr. Kotzschmar and I am writing Mrs. 

21 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

Kotzschmar for photographs of her late husband with the 
idea of putting them into the hands of the best sculptor that 
I know. 

The representative of the organ company assures me 
that the instrument can be built and installed in about seven 
months. Yours truly, 

Cyrus H. K. Curtis." 



The gift of the organ necessitating a change in the in- 
terior plans of the auditorium, the commissioners asked for, 
and were granted by the City Council, authority to expend 
$23,244.75 for such changes, this amount being added to the 
original estimate of cost of the building. 



22 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



A HuBtr GJnmmtaum. 

July 1st, 1912, an ordinance creating a municipal music 
commission was given its final passage by the City Council and 
was approved by Mayor Oakley C. Curtis. The full text of the 
ordinance is as follows : 

Section 1. There shall be appointed by the Mayor, with 
the consent of the Board of Aldermen, a music commission 
of three citizens, one for a term of one year, one for two 
years and one for three years, each from Aug. 1, 1912, and 
thereafter as each member's term expires his successor shall 
be appointed for a term of three years. 

Sec. 2. The music commission shall have charge of the 
City Hall organ and municipal music, subject to approval of 
the City Council as to matter of expense. 

Sec. 3. The music commission shall choose a city or- 
ganist who shall hold his position during good behavior, sub- 
ject, however, to removal for cause, after hearing by the 
music commission. 

Sec. 4. The city organist shall have the care of the 
organ in the auditorium of the City Hall, and under the di- 
rection of the music commission shall superintend all repairs 
to said organ. 

Whenever the city organist is sick or absent from the 
city, the music commission may appoint a skilled organist to 
play said organ temporarily. 

Whenever the organ is hired with the auditorium, and 
when the organ is used at public meetings, the city organist 
shall, by direction of the music commission, perform upon 
said organ. No person other than the city organist and the 
person appointed by the music commission shall perform 

23 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

upon said organ, except with the consent of the music com- 
mission. 

Sec. 5. The city organist shall receive such salary as 
the City Council shall annually, by vote, determine and fix, 
which salary shall be in full payment for all services rendered 
by him in the performance of his duties as prescribed in 
Section 4 of this ordinance; except, however, that he shall be 
entitled to receive in addition to his salary, compensation for 
services which he may render at gatherings other than public 
meetings, such compensation to be determined by the music 
commission. 

Sec. 6. The receipts from the use of the organ and 
City Hall, when under the charge or direction of the music 
commission, shall constitute a fund for defraying expenses of 
public concerts and other musical entertainments which the 
music commission may provide, and care of the organ ; and 
so far as deemed advisable by the music commission to repay 
to the city treasury any appropriation made by the City Council. 

Sec. 7. "Public meetings" shall be construed to include 
public municipal gatherings, concerts, recitals or other mu- 
nicipal music arranged for by the music commission. 



©tjf Muaxt (EflttttmsBtmterB. 

Mayor Curtis appointed, July 15th, the following mem- 
bers of the music commission : Henry F. Merrill, for a term 
of three years; Arthur S. Bosworth, two years; Convers E. 
Leach, one year. The nominations were unanimously con- 
firmed by the Board of Aldermen. 

September 10, 1912, the City Council unanimously au- 
thorized the Music Commission to contract for the services of 
an organist, at a salary not to exceed $5,000. 

Mr. Will C. Macfarlane of New York was chosen by the 
Commission to serve as city organist. 

24 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



Sty* Urttattbm. 

The dedication of City Hall took place Aug. 22, 1912, the 
principal exercises in the afternoon and an organ recital in the 
evening. It was a day of splendor and enthusiasm. 

The order of exercises in the afternoon was as follows: 



Sf fciratttm program. 



ORGANIST, WILL C. MACFARLANE 

1 Organ Solo, "Suite Gothique" Boellmann 

a Choral — Menuet b Prayer c Toccata 

2 Prayer Rev. Chas. M. Woodman 

3 Presentation of Keys Owen Brainard 

of the firm of Carrere & Hastings, New York 

4 Report, City Building Commission, 

Hon. Adam P. Leighton, Chairman 

5 Presentation of Organ, by the donor Cyrus H. K. Curtis 

6 Unveiling of the Kotzschmar Bust Mrs. Hermann Kotzschmar 

7 Acceptance of Building and Organ Mayor Oakley C. Curtis 

8 Organ Solo, "Evening Bells and Cradle Song" Macfarlane 

9 Oration Hon. Joseph W. Symonds 

10 Organ Transcription, "Te Deum in F" Hermann Kotzschmar 

11 Prayer and Benediction Rev. Martin A. Clary 

Representing Right Rev. Louis S. Walsh, D. D., Bishop of Portland 



The addresses are here published in full, in the order of 
their delivery : 

25 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



Mr. ©wen Srawarfc 
for % Arrljttertfl. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

In coming to the conclusion of this important work, I 
deem it proper to call your attention to the unusually felicitous 
conditions under which this building was conceived and erect- 
ed. It is the expression of the public life of this peculiarly 
representative New England city. It was instigated by a 
fine civic pride, it was carried on under the direction of an 
unusually public-spirited and broad-minded commission. The 
engagement came to us in a very flattering manner, and it 
was our ambition to create and consummate a building which 
would be an adequate expression of the genius of this city 
and its distinct and distinguished character, and to be moreover 
an expression of the vital and strong principles which underlie 
and actuate real New England communities. 

We were singularly fortunate in all our relations in 
this enterprise. We had for our associates John Calvin 
Stevens and his son, John Howard Stevens. Mr. Stevens, an 
accomplished and sympathetic artist, controlled by a fine 
public spirit, devoted himself to this work, and to his zeal and 
earnestness and co-operation much of the credit of this con- 
summation is due. We cannot adequately express our ob- 
ligation to him. 

A work of this character requires constant attention and 
to Eugene Ward, the resident superintendent, commendation 
is due for his faithfulness and skill. The contracts were in 
the hands of the famous Norcross Brothers. Their work on 
this building has been worthy of their great name. 

26 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

If I may refer to our own work it must be to speak of 
the affectionate care, quite beyond professional pride, of Mr. 
Carrere and Mr. Hastings, who put their hearts into this 
design and its execution. 

To me this event has a note of personal sorrow, because 
my longtime friend and associate, John M. Carrere, was 
removed from this life when the enterprise was half com- 
pleted. He regarded this work as one of the best that he had 
undertaken and I now vividly recall the remark he made to 
me shortly before his death : "I would rather have my repu- 
tation as an architect rest upon the Portland City Hall than 
upon any other building with which I have been connected." 

He would have rejoiced in this occasion and I feel that 
in participating in these ceremonies I am in a sense acting for 
him. And now, Mr. Chairman, it is with real gratification 
that I hand to you, as a symbol of the completion of our work, 
the keys of the City Hall of Portland. 



27 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

(Eljatrmatt of jButliing (SJommtastott. 

Mr. Mayor and Members of the Portland City Government: 

As chairman of the building commission, it is my pleasant 
duty to formally deliver to the City of Portland the custody 
of this magnificent building. 

Who of us does not vividly recall the scenes of excite- 
ment and dismay attending the destruction of the old City 
Hall, the early morning of January 24th, 1908? The fire 
brought into contact with new and perplexing problems a 
city government that had been inaugurated only a few weeks. 

The question of building a municipal home, and the im- 
portant question of where to locate it, became vital topics, 
over which there was a wide diversity of opinion. A com- 
mittee of six local architects and builders unanimously ad- 
vised that it would be inexpedient to try to utilize any part 
of the old structure, which had passed through two great fires. 

But the question of where to build anew was longer 
debated. Desiring to ascertain the wishes of a majority of our 
citizens, the City Council decided to submit to vote of the 
people the questions of location and whether the new City 
Hall should be provided with a public auditorium. 

A large majority voted in favor of rebuilding on the old 
site, a combined municipal building and auditorium, the site 
to be enlarged by the purchase of land extending to Chestnut 
street. Later a further strip of land in the rear was acquired. 

The matter of selecting plans was delegated to a building 
commission, of which the Mayor was made chairman. Hon. 
John F. A. Merrill and Richard C. Payson were appointed 

28 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

members of the commission, and their devoted service has 
met with hearty public approval. The succeeding Mayors, 
Hon. Charles A. Strout and Hon. Oakley C. Curtis, have 
also done their full part in furthering the work of the com- 
mission. 

The commissioners entered into an arrangement with 
Carrere & Hastings, New York architects of world-wide rep- 
utation, to submit a design and preliminary plans. These 
the City Council unanimously adopted and authorized the 
commission to proceed with the building contracts, and to 
arrange for a ground-floor auditorium with a seating ca- 
pacity of three thousand. 

The total appropriations, including the cost of extra 
land for the building site, and changes for organ, were 
$932,244.75. 

The total expenditures were : 

General construction, $730,088.01 

Equipment, 94,222.85 

Fittings, 18,484.48 

Furniture, 16,744.83 

Land, 6,630.71 

Architects, about 45,110.80 

General expenses, 13,821.73 

Incidentals, 3,670.93 

Items not yet ordered or 
adjusted, but prepara- 
tions made for them — 
estimated, 2,160.00 



$930,934.34 
Balance not expended, for 

adjustment account, 1,310.41 

$932,244.75 
29 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

The commissioners take pride in the fact that they have 
kept the cost so nearly within the original appropriation. 
Except for the additional cost of changing the auditorium 
to accommodate the great organ which Portland's honored 
and progressive son, Cyrus H. K. Curtis, of Philadelphia, 
had offered to donate to the city, the commissioners would 
not have exceeded the amount named by the architects in 
their original estimate of cost. 

We feel sure there is not a public-spirited citizen of 
Portland who will not approve of the extra cost of installing 
this magnificent organ — one of the greatest and best in the 
world, a memorial to Hermann Kotzschmar, whose devoted 
leadership had so large a part in the development of musical 
talent and spirit in Portland. 

Here is an ideal place for holding the Maine Music 
Festivals, and also for conventions, great and small. 

We would like on this occasion to speak in special praise 
of Mr. Curtis, the donor of the memorial organ. We ap- 
preciate his dislike for public praise, but we cannot refrain 
from mentioning his delightful personality, his public spirit 
and his commendable loyalty to the city of his birth. 

Of the architects, we cannot speak in too high praise. 
We recall that Mr. Carrere, the senior architect, remarked 
before the work of construction was fairly under way, that 
he would rather stake his reputation on the architecture of 
this building than on that of any other public structure he 
had ever designed. It seems especially sad that his useful 
life, devoted to a profession he highly honored, should have 
been so suddenly terminated. 

The associate architects, Messrs. John Calvin Stevens 
and John Howard Stevens, have been most helpful in their 
supervision of the work. They have given unsparingly a 
daily personal attention and devotion that proved inspiring 
to everyone connected with the work. 

30 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

To Norcross Bros., the principal contractors, the com- 
missioners desire to give fulsome praise. We have found 
them fair and square in every detail, masters of their pro- 
fession. Their superintendent, S. F. French and E. V. Ward, 
who represented the architects on the work, are also entitled 
to especial mention for their faithfulness and tactful handling 
of the workmen. 

The minor contractors, every one of whom the com- 
missioners heartily commend, were : Steam and ventilation, 
Cleghorn Company, Boston ; electrical work, York & Boothby, 
Portland ; plumbing, A. L. Dow Co., Portland ; electrical 
fixtures, Sterling Bronze Co., New York; furniture and 
fittings, Oren Hooper's Sons, F. O. Bailey Co., Walter Corey 
Co., Delano Mills Co., Smith & Rumery Co., Porteous, 
Mitchell & Braun, W. T. Kilborn, American Seating Co., 
S. C. Ripley & Co., Portland. 

We believe the present City Council acted wisely in 
placing in the hands of a non-partisan commission the care of 
the memorial organ. We hope they will take a further and 
equally needed step in the same direction to the end that the 
custodianship of the municipal building and auditorium may 
be kept free from party politics. This building is too valuable 
a municipal asset to be subject to indiscretions that are apt to 
come with frequent changes of political administrations. 

And now, Your Honor, Mayor Curtis, please accept from 
the fellow members of the building commission their hearty 
good-will, along with the formal relinquishment of stewardship 
of this beautiful structure, which is destined, we believe, to 
enhance Portland's title to the compliment it so often re- 
ceives of being the most beautiful city of the New World. 



3i 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



Mr. Mayor: 

I present to the City of Portland through you, this me- 
morial to Hermann Kotzschmar, who for more than fifty years 
was pre-eminent in this city as an organist, composer and 
teacher, a man who was loved by all classes for his kindly 
spirit, his high ideals, and his devotion to music. 

He cared little or nothing for material things or for 
fame — he never sought them, but here is his monument — 
a monument to one who did something to make us better men 
and women and to appreciate that indefinable something that 
is an expression of the soul. 



32 





DUST OF HKR.MANX KOTZSCHMAR. 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 



Ulagor (Hitrttn 
tit 1B*l?alf of tlje (Gtiij. 

Messrs. Commissioners, Fellow Citizens, Ladies and Gentle- 
men: 

To be enduring in its character a city must be endowed 
with certain specific qualifications, through natural origin, 
to enable it to fortify itself against adversity and disaster. 

Such attributes will afford it a basic constitution to 
withstand any disturbance, whether it be through the neglect, 
carelessness or warfare of man or the possible displeasure of 
a higher power, as viewed from human eyes, in its use of 
marvelous instruments of destruction or its engines of an- 
nihilating energy. 

Cities have disappeared, and others have at times had 
to contend against such adverse conditions as to be compelled 
to retrograde from their former position by reason of unstable 
resources or unnatural situations. 

Cities are not made in a day, but grow only through a 
long process of physical and commercial development, made 
possible by their geographical location, their facilities, their 
affiliations, their climate, their people and their country, all 
of which are of prominence in promoting confidence for 
future stability. 

The City of Portland has all these, with the possible 
exception of its geographical position in the northeast corner 
of the country. Under present circumstances, this may ap- 
pear detrimental to progress in some directions. 

In all else her facilities are unsurpassed, as is fully 
exemplified in her deep and capacious harbor, surrounded and 

33 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

protected as it is by a chain of solid breastwork against which 
Old Ocean beats, but in vain ; its expansive bay, studded with 
numerous islands with all their scenic beauty; its rail and 
water connections making far away countries our neighbors 
and friends ; its beautiful parks, its prosperous environments 
and general surroundings of thriving activity and picturesque 
grandeur. 

During its existence of general prosperity, many unhappy 
events of more or less importance have occurred, dating from 
1676, when the original settlement was destroyed and made 
desolate by the Indian War of King Philip, up to that 
memorable night of January 24, 1908, when our City Hall 
was consumed by flames. 

War, storm and fire have demanded tribute, which is all 
paid, and the various happenings are recorded in history. 
Many of these events have been disastrous in their effect on 
property ; and even death has exacted its toll. 

At the times of these visitations, expressions of over- 
whelming sorrow for the loss of life were manifested and 
deep regrets were evident for the destruction of property. 

The city has indeed been fortunate that few of these 
casualties were caused by other instrumentation than that of 
human significance. Whatever have been the misfortunes, 
she has given ample proof of her ability to rise above passing 
adversity and has advanced positive evidence of her natural 
constitutional strength, which insures a destiny of continued 
prosperity and progressive development. 

History does not often dwell on the natural benefits of 
supreme origin, but usually expatiates on the destructive 
agencies of Providence, although many of them may prove 
of advantage in their constructive incentive. 

At the best such destructive agencies are powerful only 
through the vision of humanity and are simply illustrative of 
the weakness of mankind. 

34 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



At the worst, their destructive powers, terrible as they 
seem, are limited to the institutions established by human in- 
telligence only, even at the present day discernment. 

To be sure the earth changes in contour occasionally 
through instrumentalities beyond our comprehension, but the 
damage is material only, so far as human intelligence is lacking 
in efficiency to cope with nature's energy. 

While, of course, human intellect was never intended to 
compare with and never can successfully imitate the Divine, 
humanity is continually receiving through such higher au- 
thority the incentive to spur it on to still greater effort for 
higher development. 

Whatever may have been the origin of the City Hall 
fire, the fact is apparent that its loss and demolition became 
a motive for renewed activity to replace with a finer, larger 
and better structure, requiring all the science derived from 
past experience of similar destructive events whatever may 
have been the reason for their occurrence. 

Paradoxical as it may seem, the vacuum created by the 
burning of the City Hall, while it adds new pages of adversity 
and increased volume to the history of the city, at the same 
time adds new luster to its pages by its very effects in ex- 
emplifying the city's inherent strength and ability to overcome 
difficulties which otherwise would be embarrassing and de- 
teriorating in their influence. 

As one event often causes another, so did this removal 
call for a replacement. One event was destructive and aroused 
the creative energy for another. 

The twain are interwoven and the thoughts of one revive 
recollections of the other. We all loved our old City Hall, 
with its gilded dome and massive brown walls. Long will 
we recall the lobby with its surrounding offices and halls, 
teeming with activity, where for many years the increasing 

35 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

business of the municipal government was conducted and 
where our fathers before us labored with civic problems in 
their endeavor to promote the welfare of the city and its 
citizens. 

Age alone will dull the recollections of the wide-spreading 
staircase leading up to the old hall, where time and again 
we congregated in mutual pride to enjoy the many occasions 
offered for our edification and pleasure. 

Time alone will efface from the tablets of our memory 
the associations of that old hall where we assembled to listen 
to the opinions of prominent men from over seas, as well as 
from our own illustrious countrymen. 

Here also we admired and applauded our own noted 
fellow citizens as they enlightened us on the burning questions 
of the day, and their teachings and opinions still ring in our 
ears. 

We have no desire to forget these old associations and 
cannot and will not until another generation has taken our 
place. 

But today the second event follows in consequence of 
the first, and in contemplating it the urgent requirements and 
necessities made evident by the first should be carefully 
considered. 

The accomplishment of this second event will make 
prominent pages in our history, and it would, indeed, be 
interesting could we be acquainted with the views and opinions 
which future readers will form concerning it. 

We may have failed in being sufficiently far-sighted 
in our estimates of the future legislative needs and require- 
ments of the city, but we trust the future generations will feel 
that we have not been deficient in the art of dove-tailing into 
our history an item which will be considered as being con- 
sistent with the preceding and will be in harmony with that 
which is to follow. 

36 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

We realize the peculiar responsibility of the delicate ad- 
justment necessary to accomplish this result and if we have 
failed it is now too late to apply a remedy. 

The writing of history is the art of collecting facts and 
arranging them in proper and attractive form for other 
generations to read. 

The making of history to be a credit to the makers, is 
the art of intelligently creating facts and in this instance is 
the art of wisely dealing with the displacement and the ability 
illustrated in the science of the fine adjustment necessary in 
the replacement, which will be in conformity to conservative 
usages — consistent with present resources and future prob- 
abilities. 

The world's prosperity is governed largely by two great 
factors, the destructive and the constructive. While the de- 
structive is often considered as indicative of retardation in its 
effects, more often it is retro-active by reason of a broader 
replacement made possible, and in many cases, imperative 
by such destruction, or still better in this instance, seeming 
to necessitate a new structure of wider proportions and 
greater facilities by reason of the experience gained under 
former conditions. 

There seem to be two viewpoints from which to consider 
a proposition of acquiring expansion derived from experience. 
One is the possibility of advantage, which may be acquired 
through experience in providing seeming needs or require- 
ments with no consideration of any restraining influence which 
may abridge specifications of too wide extension. 

The other viewpoint is the possibility of expansion which 
will encompass the greatest benefits in convenience and beauty 
under a controlling or balancing power, necessary to a 
proper arrangement consistent with present and probable 
future resources. 

37 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

Experience is the great teacher in reconstruction, but of 
little value unless all phases of it are considered. Thus ex- 
perience teaches us that the world is growing better, and 
more intellectual ; its inhabitants are increasing ; their re- 
quirements are more exacting; the demands for improvement 
more insistent and sentiment is becoming more and more 
extreme ; but it also teaches that there is a limit to some forms 
of expansion which must be controlled by the means essential 
to such extension. 

Resources must always be considered and if this takes 
the shape of money it simply means the medium of exchange 
of the fruit of the labor of one for that of the other. 

Displacement as well as replacement means labor to those 
best fitted for the work of adjustment and reinstatement and 
must be paid for by those whose labor abounds in different 
channels. Thus in all destruction which calls for replacement 
a benefit accrues to the builders, of whatever nature it may be. 

The very essence of nature is destruction and construc- 
tion. Flowers bloom and die ; fruits ripen and decay ; 
agricultural products grow and wither. Valuable ores of all 
kinds are mined, manufactured, and disintegrate. Wear and 
tear is constantly insistent in all construction and even Old 
Ocean gradually eats away the rocks of nature's origin. 

Still the world moves on and nothing is lost except in 
individual cases. Loss to the world seems apparent, but ex- 
perience teaches differently. What may appear a loss is 
simply disintegration and the substance appears again in 
another form of valuable resource. 

Thus today we are assembled in a magnificent municipal 
building, illustrative of the ability and ingenuity of human 
architecture and labor. Who knows the original source of 
the material used in its construction and who will ever know 
the ultimate end of the same material, perhaps in another 
form, in years to come? Who will ever know the material 

38 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



advantage which may accrue to the city in this expenditure 
and the citizenship which may result? 

Different sentiments have been manifest during the initia- 
tive and completion of this undertaking, all of which should 
be assimilated and absorbed in mutual accordance toward a 
standard of citizenship fundamentally necessary to a pros- 
perous and growing city. In no other way can the city attain 
the greatness expected of it. 

But lest future generations forget or be misled, it should 
be made clear that this beautiful building has been erected 
at a cost of great sacrifice and a tremendous strain on the 
treasury of the city which will entail high taxation for interest 
charges and maintenance. Other generations will pay their 
proportionate part of its original cost but we have sufficient 
faith in the future prosperity of our city to warrant the belief 
that the burden on them will not constitute a hardship beyond 
their ability and pleasure to adjust. 

It is certainly expected that future conditions will justify 
the outlay and that the benefits of such a large and beautiful 
auditorium as this will inure to the prosperity of the city by 
attracting to it many conventions of world-wide significance; 
which in itself should be sufficient in educational purport 
alone, if in nothing else. 

No, fellow citizens, nothing is lost, a little money perhaps, 
but this will be distributed so gradually and easily that it 
will be scarcely perceptible. The grand old city will move 
onward in its career as a metropolis, and in a few years a 
million-dollar City Hall will be but a material portion of the 
whole among the substantial buildings yet to be constructed in 
the city as it continues to grow in strength and importance. 
While fond recollections of the old City Hall yet linger 
with us and we cannot forget them, it is for us to rejoice and 
be glad that we have this beautiful building which will stand 



39 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

as a landmark and a monument to our reconstructive ability 
and emphasize to the world that "Portland is here." 

However fiercely the elements may strike, however 
terrifying the fire fiend assails, whatever the toll from pes- 
tilence, she will glory in her reconstruction, so fully insured 
by her natural constitution and inherent strength. 

Portland was not made to be destroyed as long as the 
world lasts. She may be assailed and adversity may come, 
but after each event she will arise again in greater splendor 
and renewed importance and hold her place among the pros- 
perous cities of the world. True to her motto she arises, the 
fairest city in the land, a creation of delightful destiny. 

It is a pleasure for me to pay my tribute of congratulation 
to the three commissioners who have labored, earnestly, pa- 
tiently and conscientiously, in their endeavor to accomplish 
their work in a manner worthy the highest credit and approba- 
tion, and thanks are due them from the citizens of Portland 
for their faithful attention to details calling for an expenditure 
of much time and energy, thereby according the city a just 
recompense in value commensurate with the available re- 
sources. 

And now as chief executive, representing the City of 
Portland, and in behalf of its citizens, I accept from their 
hands this magnificent edifice and by the authority vested in me 
by the City Council extend to them an honorable discharge 
from duty faithfully performed and release them from fur- 
ther service. 

I now have the pleasure and honor of declaring this 
city building and auditorium open for the benefit and con- 
venience of the City of Portland. 

And further, in accordance with the vote of the City 
Council, in behalf of the citizens of Portland, I have the 
honor to accept from the donor, Mr. Cyrus Hermann 

40 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

Kotzschmar Curtis, this magnificent organ which he presents 
to the city as a token of his respect and as a memorial to one 
whose name has and does now inspire us to a higher and 
grander appreciation of the musical art, Hermann Kotzschmar. 

I am also directed to make manifest to Mr. Curtis the 
sincere appreciation with which his gift is received, which I 
do with pleasure. 

This organ has been referred to as one of the largest in 
the world, and it is true, but not only this, it exemplifies the 
height of human ingenuity in modern organ construction. 

It should prove a magnetic attraction and be a source of 
pride and gratification to our citizens, not only for its size 
but in the quality which is most remarkable, in accord with 
the peculiar attributes of a city of such distinctive type. 

In contemplating the breadth and grandeur of this mag- 
nificent instrument we may well recall the words of Wash- 
ington Irving in his impressions of the volume of the organ 
in Westminster Abbey: 

"Suddenly the notes of the deep laboring organ burst 
upon the ear, falling with doubled and redoubled intensity, 
and rolling as it were, huge billows of sound. How well do 
their volume and grandeur accord with this mighty building! 
Now they rise in triumph and acclamation, heaving higher 
and higher their accordant notes, and piling sound on sound. 
And now they pause and again the pealing organ heaves its 
thrilling thunders, compressing air into music, and rolling it 
forth upon the soul. What long drawn cadences ! What 
solemn sweeping concords ! It grows more and more dense 
and powerful — it fills the vast pile, and seems to jar the 
very walls — the ear is stunned — the senses are overwhelmed. 
And now it is winding up in full jubilee — it is rising from 
the earth to heaven — the very soul seems rapt away and 
floated upwards on this swelling tide of harmony." 

41 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



When I was honored by an invitation to speak here 
today before His Honor, the Mayor, and the boards of the 
City Council, it was not quite clear to me what the proposed 
address should be. I could not be expected to talk long about 
a building, even one as fine as this. An architect could do 
that much better. For a day, too, like this, of public rejoicing, 
festival and congratulation over a great result accomplished, 
it seemed as if there would be little interest in a heavy dis- 
quisition upon some topic of political science, the forms of 
city charters, the due course of municipal administration, or 
any other of the problems which vex the public mind. That 
would hardly be in keeping with the spirit of the occasion. 
It occurred to me, therefore, that I might with propriety 
indulge a lighter vein, might treat this opening of the new City 
Hall as strictly and exclusively a Portland event, as in a 
certain sense a culminating point in the history of the city 
and in the life of the city to the present time ; and so bring 
within the scope of the address, in however slight and ramb- 
ling a way, some of the main points of interest in the general 
course of its affairs from the beginning. This I have attempt- 
ed to do and with some misgiving I submit the result to the 
courtesy of your attention. 

More than three hundred years have passed since the first 
European voyagers, DeMonts and Champlain, sailing along 
these shores, landed within the limits subsequently assigned 
to the ancient town of Falmouth. This was in 1605, fifteen 
years before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth. The landing 
was only upon the outer headlands of the shore. They did not 

42 



CITY BUILDING 

CUMBERLAND COUNTY COURT 
HOUSE IN 1786 WAS FIRST PUBLIC 
BUILDING ERECTED ON THIS SITE 
NEW COURT HOUSE BUILT HERE IN 
1816 TWO WINGS ADDED IN 1831 
USED AS STATE CAPITOL FROM 
«4*n TO 1832. CITY AND COUNTY 
; ERECTED IN 1858-9 
ALLY DESTROYED BY FIRE 
i*fi6 AT ONCE RESTORED 
\GAIN BURNED JAN- 
[yQ8. PLANS FOR THIS 
JILDING ADOPTED BY CITY 
DUMCIL OCTOBER 5,1908. FIR 



ILDING COM MISS 

GHTO'N' MAYOR 1908- 
fERRILL RICHARD C. 
m> ,1910 £X-< 
Hl-12 EX-OFR 

_iCTS 

i THOMAS HASTI 



EW YORK 

..E ARCH IT 

,j STEVENS I? JOHN HOWARD STEVENS 
OE PORTLAND MAINE 

CONSULTING ENGINEER 

OWEN BR.A1NARJJ OF -NEW YORK 

CHIEF CONTRACTORS 

NORCROSS BROS.- CO. OF WORCESTER MASS. 




Historical Tablet. 



PORTLAND 

> INDIAN NAME MACHIGONh 
SETTLED IN 1632 BY GEORGE CLEEVE 
AND RICHARD TUCKER AND KNOWN 
r ^R MANY YEARS AS CASCO NECK 
ESTROYED BY 
RE-SETTLED IN 
DESTROYED 



)\A\ \l>4\ I 

JJOjMzfcAj\DSD Ii% 

LiUi'.j l!-;u '////, 

pEPIS^ o-; 
'J 

COP PQiiATJifJ 
jJd'&fLA) ID JU'J 



Fji; 



WXT9frWra.V^.VI 






£ Uj JiOi 



.,NUED 
ON JULY4 18 
CITYS BUSIN 



H 1718 U. 

AS f TOwr 
jy/4, 17B6 C 
JJjtD IN 

h£ jmst 

PA1 






TED'- 



.>:•.! ITiAL 




1 1 [storical Tablet. 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

enter the harbor. If they had done so, the French settlement 
of the new world, as Mr. Baxter has suggested, might have 
preceded the English, in Portland as it did in eastern Maine. 
After brief stay these earliest visitors with their ship's com- 
pany sailed on, to the South. But during that century, from 
about 1630 to 1690, within the same boundaries, several 
English settlements were made. An early commerce flour- 
ished at Richmond's Island. Falmouth Neck was occupied, 
streets were laid out, houses and mills were built, trade and 
agriculture flourished, and a prosperous village sprang up in 
the woods. Towards the end of that century, however, in the 
old French and Indian wars, these settlements were assailed 
again and again and with the unhappy fall of Fort Loyall, on 
the bluff then overhanging the harbor at the foot of the present 
India street, on May 20, 1690, this seventeenth century civ- 
ilization on Falmouth Neck disappeared from the wilderness. 
A few of the inhabitants escaped to the settlements farther 
west but many were slain or carried in captivity to Quebec. 
The town records were lost. Only tradition, or a few names 
of the early settlers, like Bramhall and Brackett, remain. 

During this period, Massachusetts extended her juris- 
diction over the region and as early as 1658, sixty years before 
the town of Falmouth was incorporated, had given to the 
scattered hamlets along the shore the name of Falmouth. 

From 1690 until after the peace between France and 
England by the treaty of 1713, this site of early European 
occupation was marked only by the ruins of abandoned homes. 
After the peace, old proprietors returned and new settlers 
came. The first town meeting of Falmouth was held on 
March 10, 1719. It is from this period, therefore, of the 
early eighteenth century that the era of prosperity and growth 
begins which, notwithstanding vicissitudes and reverses, has 
never halted its pace in our local history to the present time. 

43 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

The story of these two hundred years of municipal life has 
been traced by the pens of our local historians through the 
periods of the early wars, of the Revolution, of the incorpora- 
tion of the town of Portland, July 4, 1786, of the cruel 
embargo and war of 1812 which made Portland merchants 
bankrupt, of the separation of Maine from Massachusetts, 
of our city charter in 1832, and of the events of more modern 
times, especially of the war for the Union; and its main 
outlines are familiar to all. 

There is a genuine nobility in the traditions of the city. 
Its record, alike in times of public crisis and in times of over- 
whelming municipal disaster, is one of unbroken courage and 
devotion to the public welfare. For five days and four nights, 
the little garrison of Fort Loyall defended the fort and their 
wives and children gathered in it, against the French and 
Indians swarming over the harbor and then surrendered only 
upon promise of safety for all — a promise which was not 
kept. 

In 1775, the little village on Falmouth Neck suffered itself 
to be destroyed by fire rather than submit to the arbitrary 
terms of the British commander. During the war of 1812, 
the city was defended by Forts Preble and Scammel, built in 
1809 and by Fort Sumner, built on the site of an earlier 
fortification. Other earthworks were thrown up and manned 
by the militia, and the British squadrons hovering on the 
coast did not enter the harbor. The flag of the British brig 
"Boxer," which was brought in as the prize of war, now 
hangs among the trophies of battle in the Naval Academy 
at Annapolis. 

The part the city played in recent wars need not be 
recited here. It has shared freely in the swiftly changing and 
advancing life of modern society, progress in the things of the 
mind, in many ways, keeping pace with the vast improvement 

44 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

in all material conditions. In the common life that is lived 
in this municipality may be traced many suggestions and il- 
lustrations of the best results of the new civilization. 

Whether we regard merely the incidents of private 
character and the successive generations of private citizens 
who have borne the burden and the heat of the day, and 
passed on, or the renown of our public men, those who have 
remained with us or those who have gone away from among 
us to win distinction elsewhere, or the changes in our mu- 
nicipal administration, improvements in our streets, parks, 
public buildings, schools, libraries, churches, as well as in the 
means of comfort and of elegance in private homes, we find 
everywhere signs that the standards of life are high and have 
been advancing. For us all, too, in the experience of each 
one of us, richly freighted memories have gathered about 
this goodly city of ours by the sea. 

The lot on which this building stands has been identified 
with the county and municipal history from an almost im- 
memorial date. A wooden court-house stood here in 1786, 
when Portland was separated from Falmouth. This was 
removed and a brick court-house erected in its place in 1816, 
to which two wings were added in 1831, the jail and jail- 
keeper's house being in the rear. This brick building, with 
its central part nearly opposite the head of Court, now Ex- 
change street, its wings extending east and west along Queen, 
now Congress street, its long white pilasters in front, its 
cupola, and above the cupola the glittering scales of justice 
hanging evenly balanced, is still remembered by the oldest 
citizens of Portland. Its demolition began in 1858. It was an 
attractive building and is associated with the names of some 
of the most prominent Portland judges and lawyers : Chief 
Justice Shepley, Stephen Longfellow, Randolph A. L. Cod- 
man, Edward Fox, Charles S. Daveis, the Fessendens, George 
F. Shepley, Nathan Webb. 

45 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

At the other end of Court street on what is now the post- 
office lot stood the Exchange, if we may judge by tradition 
and by the pictures of it which remain, by far the finest 
building (till this new City Hall) that was ever erected on 
Falmouth Neck. It was completed by the city about 1840, 
and although what was then the new city building in Market, 
now Monument Square, removed in 1887 to make place for 
the soldiers' monument, had been erected in 1825 with a hall 
in the second story for popular assemblies, some of the city 
offices continued to be in the Exchange until it was sold to 
the United States government in 1849. It was destroyed by 
fire, January 8, 1854. 

Under the central dome of the Exchange, there was a 
large hall in which citizens of Portland have told me of 
hearing Daniel Webster address the people. Judge Story once 
a year presided in the court there and the tradition remains 
of Judge Story and Webster, after the session had closed, 
walking arm in arm up Middle and Congress streets to the old 
pension where the Lafayette Hotel now stands, the marshal, 
wearing the sword, attending the judge. More of the ceremony 
of the times of the royal governors of New England lingered 
in the courts then than now. 

Court street, from Middle street to Queen street, was 
very different then from the Exchange street of our times. 
Except the Exchange, all the structures were simpler then 
than now. Lawyers had their offices on the ground floor in 
small one-story buildings erected for the purpose. But a fine 
building closed the view at either end of the street and the 
picture could not have been without its charm of elegance 
as well as of simplicity. The first State house of the new 
State of Maine also stood on this lot and was occupied by 
the executive and legislative departments until the capital was 
removed from Portland in 1831. Upon a platform erected in 

4 6 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

front of this early State house with a canopy overhead, 
Lafayette, in June, 1825, was welcomed to the capital of the 
new State of Maine. The Lafayette elm commemorated this 
event, until it was destroyed by fire in 1866. From 1831 to 
1858, this building was occupied by the city government. 

The City Hall, completed in 1862, only about four years 
before the conflagration in which it perished, is the City Hall 
of our early remembrance. In the days of the old Lyceum, 
the voices of the most distinguished lecturers from all over 
the country were heard in it and fine concerts were frequent. 
It was the rallying place of the people in the anxious days of 
the Rebellion, where they listened to some of the ablest men 
of the day and devised means to support the government; 
where, too, societies of ladies met to prepare lint for the 
wounded soldiers. It was an evil night when the people of 
Portland, massed in the streets and public places, saw the dome 
of that stately structure sink into a sea of flames which 
surged from Market Square to Munjoy and the lurid waves 
of the harbor. To the citizens, even to those who had just 
escaped from their blazing homes, the fall of the beautiful 
municipal hall seemed the culmination of a night of terror. 

It illustrates the faith and courage of the leading men 
of the city at that time, who are at rest from their labors 
now — and Mr. John B. Brown was foremost of all in re- 
building — that in the midst of the general suffering and loss 
they proceeded to avail themselves of the very desolation itself 
as a means of public improvement, of widening and straighten- 
ing streets and extending the public squares and parks. 
Congress street, in front of this building, was then given its 
present ample width and Lincoln Park was laid out on a tract 
of land that before the fire had been covered with houses. 
Many other changes were made. 

47 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

Without hesitation or delay the municipal building was 
restored, the new City Hall, familiar to the remembrance of 
all, young and old, which was destroyed by fire in the early 
morning of January 24, 1908. To the present generation of 
the people of Portland, this was the City Hall, par excellence, 
associated in a thousand ways with their experience and rec- 
ollections and always affectionately regarded as the central 
point of municipal life. Each citizen can recall for himself 
the scenes and events in which he has taken part there. Mr. 
Reed frequently spoke in its noble hall and his eloquent voice 
was heard there, in commemoration of the hundredth anni- 
versary of the organization of the town of Portland, on July 
4, 1886. 

It was in this City Hall that the Peabody obsequies took 
place in January, 1869. 

England and America vied with each other in doing 
honor to the memory of the great philanthropist, George 
Peabody. By special command of the Queen, the largest and 
most famous ship of the British navy, the "Monarch," brought 
his body to America. Vessels of the United States navy, 
under the immediate command of Admiral Farragut, were 
here to welcome the "Monarch" on its arrival. Governor 
Chamberlain, with great eloquence, received the body into the 
keeping of the State of Maine. The legislature attended. The 
military regiments took part. The entire ceremonial was 
under the charge of the city government, Judge Putnam being 
then the Mayor. The water parade upon the disembarkation 
and the funeral cortege through India and Congress streets to 
the City Hall were among the most brilliant pageants ever 
witnessed in Portland. For six days, the body lay in state 
in the City Hall, attended by a guard of honor, while thirty 
thousand people passed by to do reverence to the memory of 
the dead benefactor of mankind. K It is an incident pleasant 

48 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



to recall today that Your Honor's father, then an alderman, 
was one of the committee to go down the harbor on the revenue 
cutter to welcome the "Monarch." At the funeral solemnities 
in Portland, Mr. Kotzschmar directed the music. 

Four years ago, the city again determined to restore the 
City Hall, or rather not to restore, but to build anew from 
the foundation, and this fine municipal building, with its 
splendid hall of public audience, the completion and opening 
of which we celebrate today, is the result — a municipal 
achievement and triumph that may well make a new Portland 
anniversary, may stand in our annals as a bright initial letter 
at the opening of a new chapter in the history of the city; 
spacious and ample for all purposes of assembly and of ad- 
ministration; complete in all its appointments, elaborate in 
plan and superbly finished to the last detail of its original 
design. 

It may be that, for some of us who are past the meridian 
of life, in exterior impressiveness it does not quite take the 
place of the strong and massive structures with their swelling 
domes which preceded it. But that is not important. It was 
not built for the past but for the future. Its voice is not of 
memory but of hope. If we compare its architecture and the 
wealth of skill, labor and material that has gone into the 
design and execution of the completed work with the light 
and graceful elegance of the inexpensive structure which 
once stood upon the street corner, we have the means of 
measuring somewhat the progress of our community in all 
material things during the last half century. The contrast is 
somewhat the same as between a fine old piece of furniture, 
of simple form and graceful lines, wrought by a single hand, 
and the sumptuous products of the new machinery, or as 
between a colonial mansion, with its ideals of space and 
comfort, and the palatial houses built now at the expenditure 



49 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

of millions. We need not admire the new the less because we 
still find an interest and charm in the old. 

This magnificent organ will be one of the great central 
attractions of the city, while it will always preserve the name 
of one who is still remembered here in his boyhood — who, in 
the midst of distant and unexampled success, gave expression 
in this noble monument to his affection for the scenes and 
associations of his native city, and, by the terms of his own 
gift, there will be forever linked with his name that of the 
man of genius, who came among us in his youth, dwelt with 
us, enriched his art by his own talents and efforts, the mu- 
nicipality and the State by his presence and influence and by 
the triumphs and traditions of his life. 

In this new meeting place and with this new resource 
the Maine Festival will, I suppose, more and more attract the 
attention of the musical world. 

It has been said that a great city, whose image lingers 
in the memory of men, is always the type of some great idea. 
Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem ; Rome, ancient 
Rome, represents conquest; Athens the pre-eminence of the 
antique world in art; manners, in the most comprehensive 
sense of the word, have found a home in the bright-minded 
city of the Seine. But science has become to the modern world 
what art was to antiquity, the distinctive faculty, the peculiar 
proficiency. In the minds of men, the useful has succeeded 
the beautiful. Commerce has built London and New York, 
and mills and machinery have founded Manchester and 
Lawrence. The Parthenon may be, what it has been called, 
the fairest gem the earth wears upon her jeweled zone. But 
is it a greater human achievement than modern machinery, 
the ocean liner or the wireless telegraph? 

By lapse of time a city inevitably acquires distinguishing 
characteristics of its own — and what shall we say of Port- 

So 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

land? This building for all the future is to be the center of 
municipal life. What is the life of the city? 

In treasures of art and antiquity it does not compare 
with cities of older lands. Men do not win here the prizes 
of vast wealth which lure them to the larger cities or to what 
Emerson calls the "golden crags" of Nevada. But life glides 
on pleasantly here in the midst of the beauty of all natural 
surroundings. Portland is built by the ocean but it stands 
also on the margin of the broad table-land stretching to the 
White Mountain range, which the sun, as we look, seems to 
traverse from morning to evening, to make our day. The 
beauty and grandeur of natural scenery, in all its diversity, 
with farm houses, villages, schools, academies and churches, 
in frequent succession, invest with singular charm this upland 
sloping slowly to the sea. There are Indian battle-fields upon 
it and Indian traditions still haunt it. Poetry has celebrated 
some of its scenes of rare and peculiar beauty. It has been the 
birthplace of distinguished men, and many interesting asso- 
ciations attach to it. By the shores of its largest lake the 
boyhood of the great New England author of the last century 
lingered and mused and dreamed. From the promenades of 
Portland, the eye ranges at a single glance over it all ; by the 
Windham hills, the highlands and lakes of Raymond, Naples, 
Bridgton, over the broad meadows of Fryeburg and the 
Conways, into the heart of the mountains, at last to the sentinel 
shaft of Mt. Washington far off at the gateway of the West, 
piercing the sky. For us day breaks upon the sea, but at 
sunset the clouds still float gorgeously over the western hills. 
Many years ago it was said of New England rather reproach- 
fully that the clouds upon the horizon there were the only 
gallery of art. If this were true, how glorious still would 
be the gallery, full of coloring such as Titian may have seen 
in his early home among the Alps at Cadore. But did his 
landscapes ever reproduce it on canvas in Venice? 

5i 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

In the midst of this overflowing wealth of natural love- 
liness, Portland seems to me to have its full share of the 
charm and contentment of happy human life — and what can 
be better than that ? A competency, or the means of acquiring 
one, with a margin of life for leisure and the things of the 
mind, may be better than vast wealth. If the fields of action 
which invite young men, if the opportunities open to them are 
not so many here as is to be desired, still we are not without 
them, and young men remaining here would develop them more 
and more. 

There have been some great things done in Portland, 
by Portland people. 

In business life, ample success has been achieved here 
in the past and is being won today. Our fine railroad con- 
nections, with the Canadas, the Eastern British provinces, 
every part of Maine, the West and the South, are in part 
monuments to the men of a former generation, but only in 
part. The maintenance, operation and extensions of the 
railroads, as well as most striking improvements in the 
service they render, have afforded immense fields for the 
enterprise of the present day and require and receive the 
ablest and most comprehensive management, at the same time 
opening to young men many avenues and opportunities to 
render valuable service. If the railroad through the Notch 
of the White Mountains did not fulfil the great expectations 
entertained concerning it, it is a monument to the memory of 
a distinguished civil engineer of Portland and is at least in- 
cidentally advantageous to the city; and the annual deficit 
incurred in the operation of that Mountain Division, reckoned 
by hundreds of thousands of dollars, does not fall upon the 
city. 

What is said of our railroads is true also in the main 
of our steamboat lines, varied commerce and diversified 
manufacturing industries, all of them on a larger scale than 

52 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

formerly and some of our principal shops doing an amount 
of business that once pertained to scores if not to hundreds. 
The succession here of able men in the business world is not 
a thing of the past ; it continues to our times, including many 
of our own friends and companions, some of them living, 
some recently dead; one of them, the favorite of fortune and 
himself worthy of all admiration, just now at rest after a 
life of intensest energy and effort. So recent ! The snows of 
winter have never yet fallen upon Hugh J. Chisholm's grave. 

The professions have kept pace with the business life 
of the city. The churches have always exercised, as they do 
now, great influence here and invite to fields of the highest 
usefulness, service and honor. There were four clergymen 
of the city whom it happened to me as a young man to learn 
especially to revere, Dr. Nichols of the First Parish, Dr. 
Carruthers of the Second, Dr. Dwight of the Third, and Dr. 
Chickering of High street. These are sacred names in Port- 
land. Of only one of them I venture to speak, Dr. Car- 
ruthers, and this because I think the city and the State were 
under an obligation to him that should never be forgotten. 
He was a man of noble, rather haughty presence, and a pow- 
erful public speaker. He was a Scotchman, and there was 
too much of the quality of his native land about him to allow 
him to hesitate as to the propriety and the duty of fighting 
in a righteous cause. In the sad days of the Southern re- 
bellion, his voice was for the North, and for war. He often 
spoke in our City Hall, and when great excitement prevailed 
his impassioned utterance was like a blast upon the bugle-horn 
of Roderick Dhu. He had great influence here and in that 
crisis he used it without stint to support the government. 

Doubtless there have been other clergymen, or are now, 
of as great, or greater, influence in the city. I only follow an 
early personal recollection in mentioning these. 

53 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

All denominations are represented here and the Roman 
Catholic Church and the Protestant Episcopal Church have 
each made the city the site of its Cathedral church and the 
seat of its learned bishop. 

Dr. Dalton, our oldest clergyman, oldest in point of 
service as pastor — for he was made rector of St. Stephens 
in 1863 — lives in the serenity and dignity of age, and the 
affectionate admiration and respect of the whole community 
follow him into the retirement of increasing years. 

The profession of medicine has walked its daily beneficent 
round among us, not confining itself in these later days to 
the treatment of disease, but teaching us how to stay the 
pestilence in its course and to establish the conditions which 
promote the public health, and standing ready, at the hos- 
pitals which its influence has founded, to exhaust its utmost 
skill to relieve the humblest sufferer. 

The profession of law has given many men to the public 
service. The roll-call of honor here is thronged with legal 
names, whether we refer to service in public life or in the 
walks of the profession. There are two which it seems to me 
I may separate from the others and mention for their emi- 
nence as authors. Simon Greenleaf once practiced law in 
Portland, and Ashur Ware spent his life here. The writings 
of either of them, as you all know, are an authority today the 
world over, in the courts of Westminster or Washington or 
the far-off island-continent, washed by Australian seas. The 
recent death of Ex-Governor Cleaves removed a prominent 
member of the bar of the State. The honor of the long, dis- 
tinguished judicial career of Nathan Clifford upon the supreme 
bench at Washington pertains to Portland, as well as the pre- 
eminent public service of William Pitt Fessenden and of 
Thomas Brackett Reed. William W. Thomas, Jr., long rep- 
resented this country at the court of Sweden. 

54 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

Nor do business and the professions include the whole. 
Edward Preble won renown, imperishable as the traditions of 
the American navy, and died at forty-six years of age, while 
his grandson and namesake, a Portland citizen of our own 
times, was the lieutenant-commander and navigator of the 
"Kearsarge" when the "Alabama" went down before her 
guns. Commodore Preble's face and name are cast in relief 
in the bronze doors of the chapel at the Annapolis naval 
yard, and as father of the American navy, his picture hangs 
first among the portraits of naval heroes in the art gallery 
of the academy. He was the son of a man as distinguished 
by land as he, himself, was by sea, Jedediah Preble, made 
brigadier-general by the provincial congress in 1774 and of- 
fered by Massachusetts in 1775 the rank of major-general and 
the place of commander-in-chief of Massachusetts forces 
raised and to be raised for the Revolution. He was an old 
man then and was obliged to decline this commission by 
reason of the infirmity of age. 

It is for history, not for me, to repeat the military names 
of Portland. They dwell in your memories without repetition. 
Memorial Day pays its solemn honors alike to the living and 
the dead. Our Seventeenth Maine Regiment has just ded- 
icated its monument to the memory of one of the best and 
bravest of men. 

John Neal and Nathaniel Deering, perhaps not very 
widely known now, were pioneers in American literature and 
still hold their places among standard authors. I wonder how 
many of the school-boys and school-girls of Portland can 
repeat John Neal's description of the eagle in his "Battle of 
Niagara," or the fine lines of the soliloquy of Father Rasle at 
the opening of Mr. Deering's "Carabasset." I think it would 
be a good thing for them all to do. To the munificence of Mr. 
Deering's family the city is indebted for its grandest park, 
Deering's Oaks, where the leaves murmur of the memories of 

55 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

early New England life and of the musings of Longfellow's 
flushed and dreamy boyhood. 

The early literary reputations of Seba Smith and his 
brilliant wife are connected with Portland and his "Jack Down- 
ing's Letters" are still read for their humorous comments 
upon the public events of that time. The first series of these 
letters were published in the old Portland Courier, before 
Mr. Smith moved to New York. The later series were pub- 
lished in the Washington Intelligence. They cover the period 
from President Jackson's to President Pierce's time, nearly 
thirty years, and place him high among American humorists. 
He died in New York in 1862. I need not add that a great 
deal of excellent literary work has been done by men and 
women in Portland. 

Paul Akers died young, but he had done fine work. His 
Pearl Diver is at our Society of Art, and his cenotaph to Dr. 
Nichols stands in the grounds of the First Parish Church. 
It is a dim recollection of mine that there was a replica of his 
famous bust of Milton in the old Athenaeum before the fire. 
The Maine Historical Society has his bust of Edward Ev- 
erett. The Pearl Diver and the Milton, as you all remember, 
hold places in the studio of Hawthorne's imaginary sculptor, 
Kenyon, in the "Marble Faun." Elizabeth Akers Allen has 
left the charm of her poems, a rare legacy, to her native State. 

Franklin Simmons wears the decorations of the court of 
Italy for excellence in sculpture, distinguished even among 
Italian artists, and his advancing life is crowned with the hon- 
ors of fifty years of fine work and great work in art. His 
early studio in Portland — there are fine cameos here cut by 
him during that period — the Longfellow statue, the soldiers' 
monument, and several busts in private galleries, identify him 
with Portland, where he has many friends. 

Harry Brown, as he is always called in Portland, has 
been removed by long residence abroad but his pictures adorn 

56 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

our galleries and the walls of many domestic interiors, and his 
influence lingers in many ways, in our Society of Art and its 
art school which his associates and successors have established 
and which is doing so much to excite the taste and talent for 
art in Portland. 

John K. Paine, so long professor of music in Harvard 
University, was a school-boy of Portland. His oratorio, "St. 
Peter," was produced in the old City Hall by our Haydn 
Association, he himself acting as conductor. In 1909, his 
"Song of Promise" was sung at our Maine Music Festival. 
By eminent critics in Germany and America, Professor Paine 
is ranked among the foremost of American composers, and 
by his death this country was deprived of the "Founder and 
Father of American Music." 

Young Thaxter, after the fine accomplishment and prom- 
ise of dawning manhood, perished in his pride, just as life was 
waking from its first young dream — and there have been 
others. 

The two sons of our first Chief Justice were devoted more 
to art and literature than to law and they were both success- 
ful, one as poet and the other as artist, but their lives were 
brief. 

Probably no man ever made his home in Portland more 
widely known or of wider influence than Neal Dow, Your 
Honor's distinguished predecessor in office more than half a 
century ago. Many of you remember him well, his courtly 
presence, his imperious manner, his fervid and intrepid el- 
oquence, and I am glad to pay my tribute of respect for his 
nobility of life and character. His military service makes a 
valued part of the history of his native city and State. His 
theories of legislation are still too much the subject of con- 
troversy to be appropriate for discussion here. 

But all this is as if we were strolling together upon 
the beach at sunset, picking here and there a gem from among 

57 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

the pebbles. Another stroll and other gems appear. No 
sketch of Portland or Portland people is of the slightest ac- 
count except that from its simple lines your minds will 
complete the picture. 

When the late Lord Coleridge visited Portland many 
years ago, he was greatly impressed by the frequent signs 
of comfort the city exhibited, by the number of residences, 
homes of persons of comparatively moderate means, with 
open spaces and gardens, and all the indications of a tasteful 
and happy mode of life about them. A Roman Catholic 
clergyman who once lived in Portland, while visiting Rome, 
notwithstanding the intensity of his interest and delight there, 
would sometimes say to a friend : "But after all, I long to 
return to America, to Portland, where the people have com- 
fortable homes." By this, I do not understand that he meant 
merely that degree of competency which relieves from actual 
physical necessity, but rather to the social conditions which 
give interest and pleasure to human life. 

"With your opinions, what charm can there be in life," 
asked the Princess Lucretia of Sidonia, and he replied, "The 
sense of existence." 

To enjoy one's self is a much abused phrase. Rightly 
understood it means a fine art, a high achievement, the con- 
stant sense of approach to one's ideal self. Society, surround- 
ings, opportunities, which enable one, suitably endowed, to 
enjoy himself, the sense of his own existence, are greatly 
to be prized in this world. These things the true Portlander 
finds at home. 

Portland's supply of pure water is abundant enough for 
a metropolis, and I wonder if we are not in danger of being 
extravagant on the subject of street lighting. Macauley says 
that in 1660 there were no street lamps in London. In that 
year it was undertaken to hang a lantern on the principal 
streets of residence in front of every tenth door, to burn dur- 

58 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

ing the early part of moonless nights — and this was regarded 
as a great innovation. When we see Congress street lighted 
from end to end with electric lamps hanging like grapes in 
clusters and contrast it with this statement of Macauley's, 
it may cause us to reflect upon the true meaning of the phrase, 
"the good old times." Perhaps that means the times when 
they did not have to pay the bills. Mr. Reed in his Centennial 
address says that the first street lighting in Portland was in 
1810. The citizens by private subscription purchased forty 
street lamps and the town voted to supply oil for them — 
a small beginning surely for what has come to be a grand 
result. 

There is poverty here, but not in excess or of the darkest 
shade, and the footsteps of charity are frequent and in many 
directions. May they be so more and more! But may we 
also strive more and more to prevent the conditions which 
render charity necessary ! There is little here to suggest 
the contrast between the abject misery of dense populations in 
large cities, and the untold wealth of the communities them- 
selves, which disturbs, if it does not endanger civil order and 
of itself seems a forgetfulness of the lessons of Christianity. 
There is no higher duty of good citizenship than to deal wisely 
with this problem. For children to be born and bred in squalid 
haunts, with vice and crime for their boon companions, is at 
once a fearful reproach and a deadly peril to society. It will 
be of little avail for civilization to have subdued the original 
barbarism if out of its own depths there is to come a form 
of savagery vastly more to be dreaded than that of the wil- 
derness. 

Portland, too, seems to me to be rather distinguished 
for the absence of serious disturbances between capital and 
labor. But the history of our times admonishes us of perils 
in this respect serious enough to make us pause and reflect. If 
the two tendencies, of labor and capital, each to combine, 

59 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

cannot go on selfishly, recklessly and for an indefinite time 
without danger of a collision which will disturb the foundations 
of the State, there must be resources in the progressive en- 
lightenment and experience of our age and country that can 
meet the danger, and by the force of public sentiment shaped 
into law, assign the limits within which these immense forces 
can safely move and which neither shall exceed. 

A central and absolutely controlling authority, the State, 
is the necessary basis for the attainment or the permanence 
of high civilization. No power, influence, estate or interest 
must be allowed to rise above it. It must be able to resist and 
extinguish all forces that are aimed at its own destruction. 
In America there can be no sovereignty except that of the 
law, and this must be supreme. The united judgment and 
will of the people, legally and constitutionally expressed, must 
control at whatever cost. An enlightened public sentiment 
and conscience, shaped into law, shaping itself constantly, in- 
cessantly, with eternal vigilance into higher, purer, stronger, 
more just and more flexible forms of law are the great hope 
of America. By the enlightened public sentiment and con- 
science I mean, not the accident of an hour, not a wave of 
popular feeling, but the final will of a permanent majority, 
determining what is for the general advantage, slowly as- 
suming legal form, the unseen sovereignty of the law, the 
majestic presence that silently presides over executive, senate 
and forum, of which legislation itself is but the expressed 
and embodied will, the judiciary the voice and the executive 
from the president to the sheriff merely the hand. Far distant 
be the time when the will of an intelligent people, enacted 
into law, shall fail to control in this country against whatever 
opposition, and equally far distant be the time when that will 
shall declare anything but truth and justice for all. 

It is undoubtedly true that leveling the influence of birth 
in America tended to elevate the influence of wealth as a 

60 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



means of power in public affairs. The fabulous private 
fortunes, which the development of the resources of the new 
world have rendered possible, tend in the same direction. It 
is sometimes said that our great men are now the men who are 
worth one or two hundred millions of dollars, not the orators, 
the poets, the divines, the scholars, the artists, the statesmen. 
But that is a truth only on the surface. We do not erect 
statues to rich men merely for their wealth. When Portland 
came to select subjects for its public monuments it did not 
choose those who had won the prizes of fortune, although no 
community has finer illustrations of them than this. It se- 
lected Longfellow, the poet of all time, and of all the world; 
Reed, the statesman in a great public crisis; and then its 
loftiest and costliest monument it built to the memory of the 
soldiers and sailors who lost their lives in the war for the 
Union. 

Wealth is not all. 

Just as there are people who would make of this country 
a pure democracy, determining all things at once without let 
or hindrance according to the passions of the hour, with no 
powers or rights reserved by constitutional limitations — a 
government which our fathers did not found — so there are 
others who fear it may become a plutocracy with wealth as 
the power behind the throne, controlling the State. 

I believe we want neither of them and shall have neither. 

An English historian has -observed that in the history of 
England, the depository of power has always been unpopular ; 
all combine against it ; it always falls. Power resided in the 
great barons. The king and church crushed the barons. 
Power resided in the church. The king and Parliament de- 
spoiled the church. Power resided in the king. Parliament 
and the people beheaded one king, exiled another, and finally 
substituted in place of the king an administrative officer, en- 
titled king, but exercising the kingly office on terms defined 

61 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

by Parliament. Power now resides in Parliament, but on all 
sides hedged about by constitutional traditions and by a public 
sentiment with vastly more potent means of influence than 
formerly — and still this new depository of power is itself 
unpopular like those which have preceded it and fallen. 

This is not an accident of history. It is the spirit of the 
Anglo-Saxon race, law-abiding, their action never aimed at 
the destruction of the supreme authority itself, law-abiding, 
but jealous of power. So in this country, if wealth should 
acquire a preponderating influence, become too predominant, 
the Anglo-Saxon lesson of a thousand years teaches us to 
combine against it, to reduce it in rank, to set it in its place; 
not by tumult, violence or civil disorder — those are the tools 
of past ages. They are the blunt instruments of the stone 
age and ought to be buried as fossils, deep down in geologic 
strata. Civilized man can do better. He has tools to use 
of finer temper, of sharper edge. He can read, reflect and 
reason; he can form and express his opinion; he can per- 
suade his neighbors and friends and perhaps influence a wider 
circle. If he is right, in the end he can change the law, and 
the law rules all. In an address before the Glasgow Juridical 
Society many years ago, the Lord Chief Justice of England 
said: 

"Property is not inherently in this class or in that, or in 
this man or in that, but the laws of property are, like all 
other laws, made by the State for the State, and are the ex- 
pression of what is from time to time the judgment of that 
cultivated intelligence which in a free country controls and 
leads." 

The problem, to find the true line upon which public and 
private interests may meet, to which the exclusive right of 
private property should go, and beyond which it should not 
pass, may be a difficult one, but it is one which demands no 
sudden solution and which experience and enlightenment 

62 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 

should slowly solve. An abrupt change in any direction may 
be the greatest danger and evil to be met with in the whole 
field. Great enterprises require great wealth and the enter- 
prises of America are on an imperial scale. For our own 
sakes, in our own interest, we need to go slow when we are 
doing things which increase the timidity of capital, and to 
be exceedingly careful that we do not go too far. 

If we were to have in this country, on the one hand, 
the discontent of vast numbers of men displaying itself in 
violence and, on the other hand, the enormous power and 
elasticity of accumulated and aggregated capital, dividing the 
community into hostile camps as embittered and destructive 
as ever faced each other upon the battlefield, and if both sides 
were reckless of law, then indeed we might fear that the 
wrath of the whirlwind was upon us. But we shall not have 
that. There is too much good sense, too much clear-sighted 
judgment and conscience, in our society for that. If such a 
danger were present, the intelligence and virtue of the people 
would depart from both the hostile camps and would take 
their places by the towering form of the Republic, demanding 
with lifted arm that the law be obeyed by both, by capital and 
by labor alike. 

The period of two hundred years, from the re-settlement 
of Falmouth after the massacre of 1690 to the present time, 
has been more fruitful of change in the thought and knowl- 
edge of men than all the ages which preceded it. Looking 
back upon it, it is not easy to refrain from the commonplaces 
of enthusiasm on which so many writers and public speakers 
have insisted. The long rivalry between France and England 
for the possession of the new world, which had filled the 
shuddering settlements of our seaboard with terror and made 
them familiar with the war-whoop of the savage and with pil- 
lage and massacre, ended with the fall of Quebec. Our inde- 
pendence was declared and the war of the Revolution was 

63 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

fought. In that war the little village on Falmouth Neck bore 
more than its part of suffering and sacrifice. The constitution 
of the United States was framed, adopted, interpreted, and 
finally vindicated on the battlefield. The period of invention 
in the arts, of discovery in the natural world which far tran- 
scends the strangeness of fiction, of intellectual expansion 
and new range of speculation, began, which is still in its flood. 
The standards of the past were subjected to a new criticism 
and called upon to justify themselves in the new forum. 

In the marvelously abounding life of the great world, 
this town and city shared as it grew from the little hamlet at 
the foot of India street into the Portland of today. It had its 
part, too, in the priceless blessings of good government in the 
State and in the nation, in that system of constitutional lib- 
erty, of personal rights expressed in institutions which yield 
only to the slow process of constitutional change, to the fixed 
and constant will of the people, to the sober second thought 
of the people, not to the hasty, inconsiderate action of a tem- 
porary majority, not to the mood of the hour, which is always 
an excitement and may be a frenzy or a madness. 

In municipal affairs there is the same need of a vigilant 
public sentiment making itself felt as in the affairs of the State 
or the nation. This is the strong instrument by which good 
government is wrought out. The form of charter is important 
but not the vital thing. Almost any form which prevails would 
bring good results if the work under it were done by the right 
men and to the right ends. On the other hand, errors and 
abuses will creep into any form that can be devised if it is 
left to itself. The affairs over which the city government 
presides are matters of common concern and affect us all. All 
should keep up their interest in them. The openness and pub- 
licity of city affairs and earnest attention to them by the cit- 
izens is the great security. And where there is a conflict of 
interests and opposing views arising in municipal affairs, it 

64 



CITY HALL, PORTLAN D, MAINE. 

is of the utmost importance that the differences should be 
reconciled and concert of action in the interest of all be secured 
by avoiding bitterness and strife. The habit of mind which 
holds itself aloof from public affairs and then complains of 
h incompetence and corruption with which *ey arc managed 
is not a good one. The municipality is entitled to the best 
thought and the best knowledge of all its cit.zens ,n deahng 
with these affairs which affect them all. 

To hold municipal office is an honor which any citizen 
may covet and should be so regarded. It has been so held 
in a large measure in the past. There is hardly a municipal 
office that has not been held by some of the best cit.zens and 
the same is true today. The list of our mayors I need not 
say is a series of honored names. And on this fete day this 
day of festival for all the city, we join in greeting with es- 
pecial honor our distinguished citizen who has come latest 
to the succession, under whose business-like and honorable 
administration the City Hall has been completed. To the 
boards associated with him in the City Council, we offer he 
same congratulation. To ex-Mayor Leighton, who has been 
so prominent in the movement and borne so large a part of the 
burden of the undertaking, and to the other members of he 
building commission which has had immediate charge of the 
work, to the architects, the contractors, the builders, to every 
man whose hand has been upon the work, I am sure we all 
unite in extending the felicitations of the day. 

It is to be hoped that an incidental result of the erect.on 
of this fine municipal hall will be to excite more interest and 
to invite more attention, among the citizens, to the city govern- 
ment in its various departments which here have their home 
The building is new now but it will become associated more and 
more with the life of the city and with the affections of the 
neople Grave municipal affairs will be disposed of in its 
council chambers. The good work of the departments upon 

65 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

which so much depends will go on in its spacious offices. The 
entertainments of society, the deliberations of public as- 
semblies, will throng this hall. Music will lend its charm. 
Boys and girls, men and women, will take pride in it, the busy 
life of the city will go on about it and the future history of 
the city will revolve about it as the .center of municipal life. 
May it escape destruction by fire, may it never be assailed 
by the violence of war or civil tumult, may it glow with the 
brightness and resound with the music of many a festal day, 
may it never be too heavily or too frequently darkened by 
the shadows of calamity or sorrow falling upon the com- 
munity about it ! And if times of public peril and distress 
should come again, as they have come in the past, may there 
be men in these council halls worthy to guide the city's course 
and citizens rallying here like those assembled today with 
men of the highest wisdom among them to counsel them in the 
things which make for their peace ! 



66 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 



In the evening the seating capacity of City Hall was again 
tested to the limit. The music program was as follows: 



ORGANIST, WILL C. MACFARLANE 
SOLOIST, HARRY F. MERRILL 



Introductory remarks Hon. Clarence Hale 

1 Offertoire de Ste. Cecile Grison 

2 Prayer and Cradle Song Guilmant 

3 Prelude and Fugue in A minor Bach 

4 Recit and Aria — "Hear me, ye winds and waves" Handel 

HARRY F. MERRILL 

5 Prelude, "Lohengrin" Wagner 

6 Spring Song Hollins 

7 Overture, "Tannhauser" Wagner 

8 Song, "Pilgrim's Song" Tschaikowsky 

HARRY F. MERRILL 

9 Largo Handel 

10 Traumerei and Romanze Schumann 

11 Scotch Fantasia Macfarlane 

Dedicated to Mr. Cyrus H. K. Curtis 



Judge Hale's introductory address was as follows: 

67 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



Mr. Mayor, Gentlemen of the Music Commission, Fellow 
Citizens of Portland: 

A nobler voice than mine will give you greeting. You 
came to hear the speech of music and not the speech of man. 
It is only for a moment that I have the courage to stand 
between you and the feast that is spread before you. It is 
good to be here ; to see the giver of this magnificent gift ; 
to let him see in this great audience an expression of the 
gratitude we feel. 

There is something in this gift which especially appeals 
to the imagination and to the heart of the men and women 
of Portland. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis gives to the 
City of Portland the most complete and perfect organ in the 
world. While three others compare with it in size, those who 
know best say that in the details of its construction, this is 
the most perfect instrument known to the musical world. It 
was built with all the care which the greatest makers could 
give, having no limitation, but the instruction to produce the 
best instrument possible to be made ; the city providing 
suitable space and a proper home. This noble monument is 
given by Mr. Curtis to give voice to his affection for his 
native city ; in memory of his father, Cyrus Curtis ; and of 
his father's friend, Hermann Kotzschmar. 

While I ought not, even for a moment, to delay the 
great musical expression that awaits us, I think we ought to 
pause, to pay at least a passing tribute to the man of genius 
whose name Mr. Curtis seeks to commemorate. Hermann 
Kotzschmar would have been a marked man in any com- 
munity. It has been well said by Dr. Perkins that for sixty 

68 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



years his name in Portland was the synonym of music, the 
symbol of an ideal. Music was born in him, an inheritance 
from his father. As an interpreter of it, as an apostle of it, 
he bore the torch of his genius to our land and set it in our 
beautiful city. It is fitting that, with all we owe to German 
scholarship, we should also owe to German models much of 
the form and substance of our music. 

In Mr. Kotzschmar, the German enthusiasm was poured 
into the musical life of our city. He became a part of Port- 
land. He will always stand out as her great apostle of music. 
He led her up to the light of high and lasting standards. 
The churches heard the sermons that his music preached, and 
will never forget them. Our spiritual life will be higher for 
his hymns. When the lengthening shadows of age fell upon 
the outlines of his rugged face, we remember him standing 
before us in the sunset. And when he left us, a mountain 
was removed from the musical horizon. 

This noble building, and this organ, the monument of 
Mr. Curtis' loyal beneficence, impose a duty upon the people 
of Portland. A thoughtful student of history has said that 
Athens never realized her responsibility for the world's art. 
Will Portland realize that she is charged with the duty of 
making herself a musical center? With one of the greatest 
organs of the world, it is for her to develop the musical art. 
Judge Symonds has made fitting suggestions on this point. 
The Maine Musical Festival will always be here. Other 
musical functions will follow. The music commission, in 
whose behalf I speak, tell me they are formulating plans for 
giving free access to the auditorium on certain days of the 
week, when there will be concerts for the benefit of our 
citizens. They intend, too, that organ recitals shall be given 
by the best organists of the land, one of whom will make 
memorable the opening evening of our great organ. 

69 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



JUrital Pr0gram0. 



Jfaoag, Ann. 23. 



Affrrnnnn. 

ORGANIST, R. HUNTINGTON WOODMAN 

1 Concerto in B flat Handel 

a Andante maestoso, allegro 

b Adagio, ad libitum 

c Allegro, ma non presto 

2 Nocturne, from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn 

3 Two Organ Pieces Woodman 

a Cantilene in B flat b Scherzoso in D minor 

4 Song to the Evening Star, from "Tannhauser" Wagner 

5 Andante Cantabile Tschaikowsky 

6 Scherzo (in Canon Form) Jadassohn 

7 Finale from Sonata II Faulkes 

8 Improvisation, showing some of the tonal resources of the organ 

9 Suite in G minor J. H. Rogers 

a March b Intermezzo c Toccata 

iEtfPtttttg. 

1 Prelude in B minor Bach 

2 Interlude and Variations from Concerto I Handel 

3 a Benediction Nuptiale j Saint-Saens 

b Ihe Swan J 

4 Coronation March, from "The Prophet" Meyerbeer 

5 Asa's Death, from "Peer Gynt" Suite : Grieg 

6 Traume Wagner 

7 Concert Overture in E flat Faulkes 

8 Improvisation 

9 a Meditation 1 K d , E 

b I occata J 

70 



g>aturimg, Aug. 24. 



Mtmuum. 

ORGANIST, WILL C. MACFARLANE ^^ 

b Spring Song Bach 

3 Fantasia and Fugue in G minor — " Dvorak 

4 Humoreske T777.J'" Saint-Saens 

5 Aria > fr - S ^ E ^ ™" issrs™. wagner 

6 Prelude, "Parsifal" - - " Qr 

7 a Allegro Cantabile I From 5th Symphony 

b Toccata ' Tschaikowsky 

8 Finale, Symphonie Pathethique ■■ Brahms 

q a The Little Dustman.--..-- •• ;"""''''" Gevaert 

b The Sleep of the Child Jesus - Gruber 

c Christmas Eve ------- """"""' 

MISS ricker Dubois 

10 "In Paradisum" ■"-" "777, Wagner 

H "Liebestod," from "Tristan and Isolde Mendelssohn 

12 WeC F d r ^ ^stto-"A-Midsumme7N^s-Dream» 

Evening. 

ORGANIST, RALPH KINDER 

Guilmant 

1 Sonata, No. 5 --- 

Allegro Appassionata 

Adagio Frescobaldi 

2 Passacaglio Boccherini 

3 Minuet "" Best 

4 Fantasia on a Welsh Air ^^ 

5 Berceuse, No. 1 

6 Toccata (new) > " Mendelssohn 

7 Spring Song ;; Wagner 

8 Grand March, "Tannhauser 

7i 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



#uttfiag, Aug. 25. 



ORGANIST, RALPH KINDER 

1 Marche Religieuse Guilmant 

2 Canzonetta Cui 

3 Toccata and Fugue in D minor Bach 

4 Melody in F Rubinstein 

5 Fantasia on a familiar hymn tune "> 

6 Cantilene du Soir (New) > Kinder 

7 Caprice * 

8 Introduction and Bridal Chorus, "Lohengrin" Wagner 



7* 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



The local newspapers of Portland published the following 
editorials on the dedication of the new City Hall : 

Evening Express-Advertiser. 
This is an eventful week in Portland's history. The dedi- 
cation of the new City Hall marks an era in the growth of 
our city. We are justified in the pride we take in this beautiful 
building, incomparable in its stateliness, in its arrangement, in 
its convenience, unparalleled, every point considered, by any 
purely municipal building in the country. Public apprecia- 
tion of the efforts of the building commission should be ex- 
tended. Probably no words will ever convey to the donor of 
the splendid organ in the auditorium, an idea of how much 
Portland appreciates his gift and the thoughtfulness which 
prompted him to erect it as a memorial to our own great 
Kotzschmar. The committee of arrangements has done well 
to provide us such a program as that which will be rendered 
during the next few days. All in all, no spot in Portland will 
be pointed out with greater pride to our constantly increasing 
number of visitors, than will this new City Hall. 



Portland Daily Press. 

January 24, 1908, the old City Hall was burned. On 
August 22, 1912, the ceremonies were performed of turning 
over the new municipal building to the city authorities and 
formally dedicating the structure. Four years and seven 
months, nearly, had elapsed, during which for the most part 
the city government had been quartered in rented offices. It 

73 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

has been a long time to wait, but it was worth waiting for. 
The city corporate has now a habitation and a home, worthy 
in every respect, substantial, capacious, well designed, useful, 
ornamental and a source of pride to every citizen. 

Some have criticised the style of architecture, but it is a 
style that in its elegant simplicity grows upon one, and the 
longer it is contemplated the more pleasing it seems. The 
designers are artists among the first in their profession. They 
knew what they were about, and we may be assured that 
they had no thought of providing anything but the best and 
most suitable. They have taken much pride in the work and 
have given it constant supervision. It is a structure that takes 
the eye of visitors, and it stands as one of the finest and best 
appointed municipal buildings in the country. 

Some fault has been found also with the cost, but the 
edifice has been built for the future as well as the present, 
and to be worthy of the purpose it could not be anything 
cheap. The future must bear its share of the cost, and alto- 
gether the present generation seems to have become pretty 
well reconciled. Certainly, whatever happens, there is little 
danger that the building will be again destroyed by fire, and 
it will stand for many years a source of civic pride and pleasure 
and an architectural adornment to the city. 

Out of the loss has come gain. We lost the old build- 
ing with its many associations, but we have gained the new. 
We have gained a public hall superior to anything in the State, 
and second to none in New England. And through the munifi- 
cence of a son of Portland, we have gained a superb musical 
instrument, a masterpiece of the organ-builders, pronounced 
by those who know to be one of the finest in the world, given 
to the city in memory of a great musician whose home was 
here. But for the misfortune of 1908, we should not have 
experienced the good fortune of 1912 in the gift of this 
magnificent Kotzschmar memorial organ, presented by Cyrus 

74 



H K Curtis It is an instrument that will add greatly to 
exercises in the auditorium and delight the ears of the people 
for many years to come. 

The exercises of dedication, with the speeches of presenta- 
tion and acceptance, the oration by Judge Symonds, and the 
organ recital, were appropriate, making it an occasion long 
to be remembered as one of the red-letter days in Portlands 

t0 In the tribute paid by Mayor Curtis to the gentlemen of 
the building commission, let us all join in appreciation of 
their unselfish and untiring labors. It ought ™* *° be re " 
markable, but in these days it is somewhat remarkable that 
a public building has been erected within the cost fixed and 
without the slightest scandal or suspicion of dishonesty. 

Daily Eastern Argus. 
The imposing dedication ceremonies of Portland's new 
City Hall, yesterday, were worthy of the occasion, and the 
occasion wa" a great one in the history of Maine's metropolis 
It celebrated the accomplishment of a civic work of the first 
magnitude, destined to endure and hold its own m the Port- 
land of the distant future. In planning and construction it 
has been the chief object of civic interest since the need of a 
new City Hall arose. This interest was further stimulated 
by the magnificent $60,000 organ gift of Mr. Cyrus H K. 
Curtis to his native city -the musical Koh-i-noor jewel for 
which the spacious and beautiful auditorium is an appropriate 

C1 At yesterday's dedication, Portland's civic pride and re- 
ioicing in this double consummation found full expression 
n the great audience which filled the splendid auditorium to 
its seating capacity, and in the several addresses included in 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 

the presentation exercises. The chief dedication address by 
Judge Symonds, was a treat to every citizen of Portland. 
With his accustomed literary skill, fine taste and sure judg- 
ment, he furnished the historical background that deepened 
the significance of the occasion, connecting the Portland of 
the present and the future, typified in this new and magnificent 
City Hall, with the Portland of the past, so rich in memories, 
associations and achievement. 

In expressing to Mr. Curtis the sincere appreciation with 
which his munificent gift, so noble an addition to the new 
City Hall, is received, Mayor Curtis spoke for the city, and 
all Portland's citizens will join in attesting their gratitude. 
And they will join, too, in the Mayor's cordial tribute to the 
building commission, who, as he truly says, "have labored, 
earnestly, patiently and conscientiously in their endeavor to 
accomplish their work in a manner worthy the highest credit 
and approbation, with their faithful attention to details call- 
ing for an expenditure of much time and energy." In con- 
gratulating all connected with the planning and construction 
of the City Hall, the building commission is entitled to a 
generous share of thanks. 

"The commissioners take pride," said ex-Mayor Leighton, 
speaking for them, "in the fact that they have kept the cost so 
nearly within the original appropriation." It is a legitimate 
pride, while the fact will be appreciated by the citizens. The 
city takes over her new City Hall, beautiful, commodious, 
spacious beyond all present needs, and, with its great organ, 
an impressive enhancement of Portland's civic dignity and 
resources. It has been erected, as Mayor Curtis says, at a 
cost of sacrifice and strain on the treasury; but those who 
have questioned the wisdom and prudence of so costly a build- 
ing, will join with him in hoping that the benefits expected to 
be derived from it, will justify the outlay. 



76 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE 



g>penfuatt0tt*i 



of 



Stje Sour iEanual ©rgan 



AUSTIN ORGAN COMPANY. HARTFORD. CONN. 
BUILDERS 



77 



THE DEDICATORY EXERCISES, 



GREAT ORGAN 



I 


Sub Bourdon, 


31 ft. 


61 


pipes, wood 


2 


Bourdon, 


16 " 


61 


" 


3 


Violone Dolce, 


16" 


61 


metal 


4 


First Open Diapason, 


8" 


61 




5 


Second Open Diapason, 


8" 


61 




6 


Third Open Diapason, 


8" 


61 




7 


Violoncello, 


8" 


61 


wood 


8 


Ge ins horn, 


8 " 


61 


metal 


9 


Doppel Flute, 


8" 


61 


wood 


IO 


Clarabella, 


8 " 


61 




it 


Octave, 


4 " 


61 


metal 


12 


Hohl Flute, 


4" 


61 


wood 


13 


Octave Quint, 


3 " 


61 


metal 


14 


Super Octave, 


2 " 


61 





15 Double Trumpet, 16 ft. 61 pipes, reed 

16 Trumpet, 8 " 61 " " 

17 Clarion, 4 " 61 " " 

18 Cathedral Chimes, (Enclosed in Solo Box) 

19 Swell to Great 

20 Swell to Great Sub 

21 Swell to Great Octave 

22 Orchestral to Great 

23 Orchestral to Great Sub 

24 Orchestral to Great Octave 

25 Solo and Echo to Great Unison 

26 Solo and Echo to Great Super 

27 to 34 Eight adjustable composition pistons to con- 
trol Great stops and couplers 



SWELL ORGAN 



35 


Quintaton, 


16 ft. 


73 pipes 


wood 


47 


Contra Fagotto, 


16 ft. 73 pipes, reed 


36 


Diapason Phonon, 


8 " 


73 


metal 


48 


Cornopean, 


8 " 73 " 


37 


Horn Diapason, 


8 " 


73 " 


" 


4Q 


Oboe, 


8 " 73 " 


38 


Viole d'Gamba, 


8 " 


73 


" 


50 


Vox Humana, 


8 " 61 " " 


39 


Rohr Flute, 


8 " 


73 


wood 


51 


Tremulant, 




40 


Flauto Dolce, 


8 " 


73 






52 Swell Sub 




41 


Unda Maris, 


8 " 


61 " 






53 Swell Unison 


Off 


42 


Muted Viole, 


8 " 


73 


metal 




54 Swell Octave 




43 


Principal, 


4 " 


73 






55 Solo to Swell Unison 


44 
4S 
46 


Harmonic Flute, 

Flautino, 

Mixture, 3 and 4 ranks 


4 " 

2 


73 

61 " 
232 


" 


56 to 63 Eight adjustable composition pistons to con 
trol Swell stops and couplers 



ORCHESTRAL ORGAN 



64 


Contra Viole, 


65 


Geigen Principal, 


66 


Concert Flute, 


67 


Dulciana, 


6S 


Viole d'Orchestra, 


69 


Viole Celeste, 


70 


Vox Seraphique, 


71 


Quintadena, 


72 


Flute d'Amour, 


73 


Flageolet, 


74 


French Horn, 


75 


Clarinet, 



73 pipes 


metal 


76 


Co 


73 




77 


Ti 


73 


wood 




78 


73 


metal 




79 


73 


tin 




80 


73 






81 


61 " 


metal 




82 


73 


" 




83 



w.&m. 
metal 
reed 



Cor Anglais, 8 ft. 73 pipes, reed 

Tremulant, 

Orchestral Sub 

Orchestral Unison Off 

Orchestral Octave 

Swell to Orchestral Sub 

Swell to Orchestral Unison 

Swell to Orchestral Octave 

Solo and Echo to Orchestral Unison Sub. 

and Super 
85 to 92 Eight adjustable composition pistons to con- 
trol Orchestral stops and couplers 



78 



CITY HALL, PORTLAND, MAINE. 



SOLO ORGAN 



93 


Violone, 


i6ft. 


73 pipes 


wood 


94 


Flaute Major, 

Open 


8 " 
Chests 


73 




95 


Grand Diapason, 


8 " 


73 


metal 


96 


Gross Gamba, 


8 " 


73 


" 


97 


Gamba Celeste, 


8 " 


73 




98 


Flute Overte, 


4 


73 


wood 



gg Concert Piccolo, 
loo Tuba Profunda, 
lot Harmonic Tuba, 

102 Tuba Clarion, 

103 Orchestral Oboe, 

104 Tuba Magna, 



z ft. 6i pipes, metal 
16 " 

j-85 ' reed 



(Enclosed) 



7? 











ECHO ORGAN 










(In Roof) 


105 


Cor de Nuit, 


8 ft. 


73 pipes 


, wood 114 


106 


Gedackt, 


8 " 


73 


H5 


107 


Vox Angelica, 


8 " 


61 " 


metal 116 


108 


Viole Aetheria, 


8 " 


73 


117 


109 


Fern Flute, 


4 " 


73 


wood n8 


no 


Echo Cornet, 3 ranks 




183 " 


metal ng 


III 


Vox Humana, 


8 " 


61 " 


reed 120 


112 


Harp, 




4g notes 


121 to 128 Kit 


113 


Tremulant, 






control So 



Solo and Echo Sub 
Solo and Echo Unison Off 
Solo and Echo Octave 
Great to Solo Unison 
Echo "On" and Solo "Off" 
Solo and Echo "On" 
Solo "On" and Echo "Off" 
Eight adjustable composition pistons to 
control Solo and Echo stops and couplers 



i2g 
130 
13' 
132 
133 
134 
135 
136 
137 
138 
»39 
140 
i 4 r 
142 
'43 
144 



Contra Magnaton, 
Contra Bourdon, 
Magnaton, 
Open Diapason, 
Violone, 



32 ft. 
32 " 
16 " 
16 " 
16 " 



Dulciana, (From Great) 16 
First Bourdon, 16 

Contra Viole, '6 

Second Bourdon, 16 

Lieblich Gedackt, (Echo) 16 " 
Gross Quint, 10 2-3 

Flauto Dolce, 8 " 

Gross Flute, 8 " 

Violoncello, 
Octave Flute, 
Contra Bombarde, 



PEDAL 


ORGAN 




Augmented 






, metal 
wood 


'45 


Bombarde, r6 ft. 

(25 inch wind) 


32 notes, reed 


metal 


146 


Tuba Profunda, 16 " 


32 


wood 


•47 


Harmonic Tuba, 8 " 


32 " 




148 


Tuba Clarion, 4 " 


32 " 



metal 
wood 
metal 
wood 



8 " 


32 


w.&m. 


4 


32 


wood 


32" 


32 


reed 



(From Solo Enclosed) 



'49 



Contra Fagotto, 16 " 

(From Swell) 



u 



150 Swell to Pedal 

151 Swell to Pedal Octave 

152 Great to Pedal 

153 Orchestral to Pedal 

154 Solo and Echo to Pedtl 

t5s Solo and Echo to Pedal Octave 

156 to 161 Six adjustable composition pedals to con- 
trol Pedal stops and couplers 



ACCESSORY 



Balanced Creicendo Pedal, adjustable, not mov- 
ing registers 

163 Balanced Swell Pedal 

164 Balanced Orchestral Pedal 



165 Balanced Solo and Echo Pedal 

166 Great to Pedal, Reversible 

167 Solo and Echo to Great, Reversible 

168 Sforzando Pedal 



79 



up 



^ 



s 



